Weird problem with Mplayer
 

Hi,

I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces, such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy Longlegs.avi".

It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....


The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works just fine.


Any ideas?


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Weird problem with Mplayer
 

On 04/07/2008 07:01 PM, Miguel Gaiowski wrote:

Hi,

I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,
such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy
Longlegs.avi".

It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....

The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by
double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works
just fine.


Any ideas?


[]s



What file manager are you using? What is your locale? What distribution
are you using?


Spaces work fine in nautilus 2.14.3.



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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:01:18PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,
> such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy
> Longlegs.avi".
>
> It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....
>
> The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by
> double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works
> just fine.

double clicking in what? hate to be so obvious but

MythBusters - S01
Mythbusters%20-%20S01

i see bit of a difference there. no wonder mplayer can't find the given
file. %20 is a coded space but the application should translate it to " " for
mplayer to find it.

mk


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On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Kraus <lists_mk@wujiman.net> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:01:18PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,

> such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy

> Longlegs.avi".

>

> It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....

>

> The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by

> double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works

> just fine.



double clicking in what? hate to be so obvious but
Using Gnome here, trying to open it from nautilus.
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MythBusters - S01

Mythbusters%20-%20S01



i see bit of a difference there. no wonder mplayer can't find the given

file. %20 is a coded space but the application should translate it to " " for

mplayer to find it.


Ya, I noticed the problem only happens with gmplayer.
If I knew where to edit the way it calls gmplayer I could try the sed hack suggested by Rich.
*

Thanks



mk





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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:14:51PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Kraus <lists_mk@wujiman.net> wrote:
>
> Using Gnome here, trying to open it from nautilus.
>
>
> >
> >
> > MythBusters - S01
> > Mythbusters%20-%20S01
> >
> > i see bit of a difference there. no wonder mplayer can't find the given
> > file. %20 is a coded space but the application should translate it to " "
> > for
> > mplayer to find it.
> >
>
> Ya, I noticed the problem only happens with gmplayer.
> If I knew where to edit the way it calls gmplayer I could try the sed hack
> suggested by Rich.

look for a .desktop file such as mplayer.desktop somewhere in
/usr/share/applications. gnome should follow the xdg standards on desktop
files. in this file, there is a description how to call a program with
appropriate arguments. however if nautilus supplies mplayer with %20 instead
of " " it looks more like a nautilus problem then the .desktop description
problem.

mk


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On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:

On 04/07/2008 07:01 PM, Miguel Gaiowski wrote:


Hi,



I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,

such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy

Longlegs.avi".



It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....



The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by

double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works

just fine.





Any ideas?





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What file manager are you using? What is your locale? What distribution are you using?



Spaces work fine in nautilus 2.14.3.




GNOME Nautilus 2.20.0. I'm in Brazil, using Debian Lenny.
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Weird problem with Mplayer
 

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:01:18 -0300
"Miguel Gaiowski" <miggaiowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,
> such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy
> Longlegs.avi".
>
> It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....
>
> The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by
> double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works
> just fine.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>

Try changing your /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop

- the line Exec=gmplayer %(some letter)

I have Exec=gmplayer %F, and this made it work for me.

(I think I had %U there previously, but I am not sure.)


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Weird problem with Mplayer
 

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Andreas Rönnquist <andreas.ronnquist@meritkonsult.se> wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:01:18 -0300

"Miguel Gaiowski" <miggaiowski@gmail.com> wrote:



> Hi,

>

> I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,

> such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy

> Longlegs.avi".

>

> It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....

>

> The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by

> double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it works

> just fine.

>

>

> Any ideas?

>



Try changing your /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop



- the line Exec=gmplayer %(some letter)



I have Exec=gmplayer %F, and this made it work for me.



(I think I had %U there previously, but I am not sure.)




Yep, that works! Thanks
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