On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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