[MPlayer-users] mplayer.desktop has incorrect "Exec" line?

Christian Lohmaier cloph at openoffice.org
Sun Feb 24 19:41:15 CET 2008


Hi *,

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:09:08PM -0200, Alejandro Jarovisky wrote:
> 
> After a default GNOME (version 2.20.3) and mplayer installation, I get 
> the following error when double-clicking a video file:
> "Failed to open file:///home/nuwanda/video.avi"

Try whether you can open it with that URL from the commandline. My
(g)mplayer has no problem with URI-style filearguments. (that is what
the %U stands for - accepts one or multiple file-arguments in URI
notation)

ciao
Christian
-- 
NP: nichts



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