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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Miguel Fco. A. de Mattos Gaiowski
04-08-2008, 12:41 AM
"Mumia W.."
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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04-08-2008, 01:05 AM
Martin Kraus
Weird problem with Mplayer
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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04-08-2008, 01:14 AM
"Miguel Gaiowski"
Weird problem with Mplayer
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.
*
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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04-08-2008, 01:29 AM
Martin Kraus
Weird problem with Mplayer
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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04-08-2008, 01:47 AM
"Miguel Gaiowski"
Weird problem with Mplayer
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?
[]s
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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> 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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04-08-2008, 10:35 AM
"Miguel Gaiowski"
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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Weird problem with Mplayer
