Player and UNC network names

[Ken Ray]

On 5/11/05 2:43 PM, "Peter T. Evensen" <pevensen at siboneylg.com> wrote:

> I wanted to bounce this off everyone before I bugzilla it.
> 
> If you create a player, click on the folder button to chose the movie file,
> navigate to and choose a movie on a network server, the file name is mapped
> using the UNC format (e.g. "//server/folder1/folder2/movie.mov").  The
> player will not load this movie.  It will, however, work if the network
> drive is mapped (so you get something like "z:/folder1/folder2/movie.mov").
> 
> Shouldn't it work even with the UNC specification?
> 
> Images work with the UNC specification.

It's a bug, IMHO, see Bug #1977 in Bugzilla.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com