[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix for mplayer desktop file

[Uoti Urpala]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 21:07 +0100, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> W dniu 28.03.2008 20:50, Piotr Kaczuba pisze:
> [...]
> > The problem arises when there are HTML escape sequences in the URL. %U 
> > substitutes a space for %20 and '[' for %5B for example. MPlayer cannot 
> > handle them and thus fails to find the file.
> [...]
> 
> I've meant it of course the other way round. Spaces and '[' are replaced 
> with %20 and %5B respectively.

MPlayer should probably be changed to decode URL escapes when playing
file:// URLs. Does anyone have a reason why that should not be done?