Re: [xine-user] loading files from command line

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

Hi Andrej,

On 7 Mar 2003, Andrej Bagon wrote:

> so the _PROBLEM_ is the following
> if the filename is something like:
> K-19 The Widowmaker #1.avi
> Star Wars - EP II - Attack Of The Clones - #2.avi
> xine will report that it can not play the movie, because it can not find
> a valid demuxer.
[...]
> so i guess the problem is in the filenames. Can someone correct this
> problem before 1.0 release.

Hmm, I guess we could try to produce a better error message in this case,
but you have hit the limits of our MRL specification:
The '#' character is reserved for MRL options (like explicitly selecting a
demuxer or setting config options on a per MRL basis). Have a look at
README.mrl for details!
However, URL style "%" escapes are supported by xine, so you should be
able to replace '#' with "%23", in order to play your files, eg:
xine 'K-19 The Widowmaker %231.avi'

Hmmm, I just tried, and it looks like the file input plugin doesn't
unescape right now :-(
I guess that should be fixed.
Thanks for the bug report!

	Siggi