Re: Weird problem with Mplayer

["Miguel Gaiowski" <miggaiowski@gmail.com>]

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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Andreas Rönnquist <andreas.ronnquist@meritkonsult.se>

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Miguel Fco. A. de Mattos Gaiowski