[MPlayer-users] MPlayer won't open filenames with non latin characters

[RVM]

El Jueves, 20 de Diciembre de 2007 03:24, The Wanderer escribió:
> RVM wrote:
> > This happens to me on Windows XP (in Spanish), I don't know what
> > charset Windows uses, or how the filenames are stored in the hard
> > disc (I'm using FAT32 partitions).
> >
> > I created this bat file (launch_mplayer.bat) on the desktop:
> >
> > cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Ricardo\My Documents\mplayer-r25386-mingw\"
> > mplayer.exe %1 > mplayer_log.txt 2>&1
>
> I'm having a hard time imagining why this approach might be necessary...

Because I couldn't pass the filename from command line (on a command prompt 
window). I can't type Japanese characters and tab autocompletion replaces 
them with ???.

> > Now if I drag a video file (with latin characters) to the
> > launch_mplayer.bat icon, mplayer plays it. But if the filename
> > contains characters from another alphabet then it doesn't.
> >
> > I renamed a file to mewmew-vorbis-ssa-日本語.mkv (using 3 Japanese
> > characters). When I try to play it, this is what mplayer says in the
> > log:
> >
> > MPlayer dev-SVN-r25386-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 (Family: 15, Model: 76,
> > Stepping: 2)
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> > Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> >
> > Playing D:\Videos\mewmew-vorbis-ssa-???.mkv.
> > File not found: 'D:\Videos\mewmew-vorbis-ssa-???.mkv'
> > Failed to open D:\Videos\mewmew-vorbis-ssa-???.mkv.
> >
> >
> > Exiting... (End of file)
> >
> > VLC, for instance, can open that file without problems.
>
> How are you launching VLC? By a batch file in the same way, or by
> file-type association, or via the Open command in the GUI?

I did the same, I dragged the video to the VLC icon on the desktop. Anyway 
I'll try tomorrow using a batch file too.

> I have a suspicion that you are not doing it by a batch file, and that
> if you did you would see the same failure.
>
> > Is this a bug?
>
> I doubt it; it looks to me like a limitation of the command processor
> involved, at least in the specific environment you're using.
>
> > I don't know if this problem happens under Linux too. I couldn't test
> > it. My system is configured to ISO-8859-15 and konqueror doesn't even
> > allow me to create such a filename.
>
> That's why you should A: always run every system as UTF-8 and B: do your
> file renaming via the command line. 

Konsole doesn't allow me either. I paste the Japanese characters but they are 
replaced by ???.

> (Admittedly switching over to UTF-8 
> if you are not already in it is not always trivial; I did it without
> help, but it broke parts of my system for a good long while.)
>
> Under Linux, I copied a known-good file, played it with 'mplayer
> <filename>' to confirm still good, used 'mv' to add 日本語 to its name,
> and played it again with the same method; it worked both times. MPlayer
> is entirely capable of handling non-Latin characters in filenames, at
> least under the right circumstances; it looks to me like this is a
> problem with your environment, and probably specifically with Windows
> batch files.

Will it able to open the file too if it is in a Windows partition?

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RVM