From 3289521e6c990d7084a6d3b501debf5fd82c3797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "tiny.bell9228@b8988087df4fe0446bb6874c40ae9f8bc87ce984" Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:58:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...o_play_a_video_from_WSL2_on_Windows_VLC.mdwn | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/How_to_play_a_video_from_WSL2_on_Windows_VLC.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_play_a_video_from_WSL2_on_Windows_VLC.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_to_play_a_video_from_WSL2_on_Windows_VLC.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8fee5a4f03 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_play_a_video_from_WSL2_on_Windows_VLC.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +I was trying to check out the videos in the downloads repository associated with this project, but I don't know how to get them to play. + +In WSL2, I ran: + +``` +git clone https://downloads.kitenet.net/.git +cd downloads.kitenet.net +git annex get ./videos/git-annex/git-annex-assistant-intro.mp4 +``` + +The download was successful, but trying to play the video using VLC on Windows resulted in the following error: + +``` +VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file://wsl.localhost/Ubuntu-20.04/home/username/annex/downloads.kitenet.net/videos/git-annex/git-annex-assistant-intro.mp4'. +``` + +I suppose this is because VLC doesn't know what to do with the symlink, but I don't know how to deal with the problem.