[Libav-user] Faulty handling of file: protocol on Windows

[Hendrik Schreiber]

On Jun 18, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Hendrik Schreiber <hs at ...> writes:
> 
>> On Windows, the scheme part (file:) is always followed 
>> by a bunch of slashes, usually three (file:///),
> 
> three sounds like a very unlikely number to me.

Yes, it sounds odd, but please read http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx

That said - Java only uses one slash for these kinds of URLs on Windows... and I guess, misbehaves.

-hendrik