I set up dolphin to browse files on an sftp server, and it works great !
The thing is that I would like to stream videos with mpv (by double clicking on them).
This only works if I set “username:password@domain…” in the url bar (I can’t set it in the sftp config in dolphin, or the password simply gets removed).
So when I explicitly set the password in the url, it works, but when restarting dolphin, I’m prompted for a password, I can browse the files, open small files (images, documents), but can’t stream videos with mpv (nothing happens, mpv doesn’t open itself).
kwalletmanager should show you everything you need. If you have never set a password for it, or if you have and don’t know it, you will need to set one.
The sftp password is indeed displayed in kwalletmanager.
Is there anything I can do to make video streaming working on my end ? Or is it something that has to be fixed/implemented in the code ?
I don’t know enough about streaming to know if it is even supported across a FTP connection. I doubt it is. Http can do it, but that is a different protocol.
It depends. There are two ways to make streaming work on Dolphin:
If the app has its own built-in smb/sftp/fts/nfs etc client, then you can make it work by entering network credentials for your mount in the app’s own network client configuration UI. Off the top of my head, VLC does this.
If you install kio-fuse, then streaming will work to arbitrary apps, with the following limitations:
– If the app has its own smb/sftp/fts/nfs etc network client, that needs to be disabled, or else the app will try to use it, fail, and not let kio-fuse its its own streaming capability.
– At the moment `kio-fuse supports SMB network locations for streaming, and also a few others, but I can’t remember which ones aren’t supported right now. It’s possible SFTP is one of them. But it can’t hurt to try!