Re: 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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