[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix to support file:///x:/path

[Alban Bedel]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:00:15 -0500
Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:53:24PM +0900, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> > Hi/2.
> > 
> > Currently, MPlayer supports file://path style. But on Windows and
> > OS/2, local path is expressed by 'file:///x:/path'. That is, '/' is
> > prefixed to normal path. So we need to remove '/' before 'x:/path'.
> 
> To my knowledge, file://foo is always a relative (non-/-initial) path,
> i.e. file://foo means ./foo while file:///foo means /foo, at least in
> standard urls. I think MPlayer is just wrong here. Special-casing
> windows drive letter nastiness is not the right fix, at least..

MPlayer work as you describe, it's not wrong :) Now how the path (ie.
everything after file://) is to be interpreted is obviously OS
dependend. So such "path fix" are acceptable imho but they must be under
#ifdef.

	Albeu