[MPlayer-users] Gmplayer cannot open files

[Charles philip Chan]

andrew <andrew.david.45 at gmail.com> writes:

> The Gui gmplayer cannot open files with spaces in the filename or
> spaces in the path to the file. A widely reported workaround is to
> change handling of file from URL to File. Editing:
>
> /usr/local/share/applications/mplayer.desktop
>
> to replace:
>
> Exec=gmplayer %U
>
> with this:
>
> Exec=gmplayer %F

This is not a bug in mplayer, but the desktop file- the file name needs
to be quoted or escaped because the shell relies on the space to
destingish between file names. In this case the correct syntax is:

,----
| Exec=mplayer "%U"
`----

Please file a bug report with your distro.

FWIW, here is a good tutorial on quoting:


http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/lehre/unixffb/quoting-guide.html

Charles
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