[MPlayer-users] Files with escaped names don't open

Krzysztof Duchnowski amidk75 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 17:13:35 CET 2007


Mark Tilford pisze:

> I have some videos with special names (containing spaces or brackets).
>  System is Ubuntu.

> If I try to open one of them from the file manager, I get an error
> "Failed to open file:///...%20...".  If I choose "open with custom
> command / gmplayer", I get the same problem.  If I "open with custom
> command / mplayer", it works fine.

> Watching with ps indicates that in the first two cases, the filename
> is passed as an escaped URL, and in the third as a filename.

> In the past, I had been using the Ubuntu packages; I recently switched
> to an svn snapshot.

> Any ideas how to get it working again?

[open with custom command/gmplayer "%f"]

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