Linux : unable to add from a network location

[philstopford]

This isn't an issue on Windows, but trying to add in a file from the file browser from a network share (e.g. smb://user@myserver/share/myfile.mp4) yields an error that the file could not be found.

The only way to avoid this seems to be a direct mount into the file system, which is inconvenient in many cases and often requires super user rights.

[CineEncoder]

Hello! I'll see what can be done.

[philstopford]

This seems to be coming from MediaInfo itself.

I found that Qt's absolutePath also doesn't help. Faced with something like smb://myserver/myshare/myfile.mp4

'absolutePath' turns this into :

currentWorkingDirectory/smb:/myserver/myshare

Using .path() avoids this, but MediaInfo.Open() then somehow fails when presented with the smb:// path. I noticed that running mediainfo itself from the command line simply yields an access denied error when presented with an smb:// path. There doesn't appear to be a way to provide credentials.