No. I can confirm. SFTP (basically SSH) mounts from nautilus can be opened from vlc, but not FTP and possibly SMB as well.
With FTP mount the symptoms are exactly as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/211632/comments/9 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211632 Title: vlc does not play files from a "bookmarked" smb share Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in vlc package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When using Nautilus to create shares to a NAS box, using smbfs/cifs, vlc will not play the files saying that it does not have smb:// support. I believe that vlc actually supports it, but it seems that it is not on by default in Hardy Beta. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/211632/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp