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

[Ulion]

2007/12/20, RVM <rvm3000 at ya.com>:
> El Jueves, 20 de Diciembre de 2007 03:24, The Wanderer escribi¨®:
> > 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-ÈÕ±¾ÕZ.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 ÈÕ±¾ÕZ 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.
>

http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=955

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Ulion