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Bug 101230 - mplayer commandline can't open files with whitespaces
Summary: mplayer commandline can't open files with whitespaces
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2005-08-03 10:44 UTC by Michael Siebert
Modified: 2005-08-21 13:59 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Siebert 2005-08-03 10:44:13 UTC 
When you try to open a file containing whitespaces, mplayer tries to open
several files divided by whitespaces instead of the desired file, no matter
wheater the whitespaces are escaped in bash or not. To play a file from command
line you have to either rename the file or create a symlink to it that does not
contain whitespaces.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install mplayer
2.Download a movie or mp3 somewhere
3.Give it a name containing whitespaces
4.Try to play the media file from command line
Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-08-03 11:01:31 UTC 
Can't reproduce here.
Comment 2 Michael Siebert 2005-08-03 12:39:18 UTC 
I got the mplayer version 1.0pre6-3.4.4
Comment 3 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev 2005-08-04 02:09:21 UTC 
did you escape the spaces or use the "" ?
Comment 4 Michael Siebert 2005-08-04 04:29:14 UTC 
both
Comment 5 Michael Siebert 2005-08-04 04:30:14 UTC 
that means I tried it with backslashes once, then with quotes and doublequotes
Comment 6 Michael Siebert 2005-08-21 13:59:49 UTC 
my error, used a wrapper script to mplayer and forgot about it :-)