[MPlayer-users] Issue with Unicode file name in the slave mode with Windows binary

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:15:16PM +0400, Abu Abdullah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running mplayer from inside my application. Passing Unicode file name
> works fine if it is in the normal mode i.e.
> $ mplayer.exe  filename
> 
> but it is not working in the slave mode using the loadfile <Unicode file
> name>. I tried also to use loadlist <ASCII file name> and the file itself
> is encoded in UTF8, still not working:

The exact same code is used for both.
So if you give loadfile the exact same bytes (i.e. in the system's
single-byte encoding) it will work just the same as from the
command-line - unless the build you used added some special patches.
Two workarounds should exist
1) Using the 8.3 compatibility file name
2) Using ffmpeg://file_names_as_utf8