Re: [xine-devel] Bug with file MRL handling

[Bastien N. <ha...@ha...>]

On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 01:26, be...@us... wrote:
> Hi=20
>=20
> I think there is a bug in the way file mrl are handled.
>=20
> the normal way to identify a file /home/user/video.vob would be
> file://home/user/video.vob
> If you do that xine says it can't find a plug-in for that.
> If you specify file:///home/user/video.vob it works. (Note the 3 ///)
>=20
> If you are in the directory /home/user/tmp and you are calling=20
> xine with=20
> xine -p file://../video.vob it plays the file.
>=20
> I think this is wrong. A file url (or mrl) should have the abolute path n=
ot a=20
> relative path. If you want a relative path just leave out the file://
>=20
> And file://home/user/video.vob is the correct mrl and not=20
> file:///home/user/video.vob

Wrong.

scheme + colon + two slashes for the protocol, then either hostname, or
user, password, hostname, or nothing. Then path.

scheme:
file://
path:
/home/user/video.vob

which gives:
file:///home/user/video.vob

file://home/user/video.vob isn't a correct URI.

Cheers

--=20
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net