[MPlayer-users] Could not parse arguments with filenames containing a comma

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:02:09 +0100
Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq at caraldi.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for providing MPlayer, great program!
> 
> I'm currently using it to decode Apple's MPEG-4 AAC, and it works
> great:
> 
>   $ mplayer -ao pcm:file=track.raw track.m4a
> 
> However when the file to convert contains a comma, I can't manage
> to make mplayer write the correct output file:
> 
>   $ mplayer -ao pcm:file=track,sure.raw track,sure.m4a
> 
> This command works but the output file is "track" instead of
> "track,sure.raw".
> 
> 
> I also tried the string-escaping that is documented in the man
> page:
> 
>   $ mplayer -ao pcm:file=%14%track,sure.raw track,sure.m4a
> 
> But it says:
> 
>   Could not parse arguments at the position indicated below:
>   file=%14%track
>        ^
> 
> For the moment I switched to faad (specific decoder for this
> format), but I still wanted to report this issue.
> 
> Any idea?

try this:
$ mplayer -ao pcm:file=track\,sure.raw track\,sure.m4a


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i.