Bug#427367: vlc should support spaces in filenames

[Martin Schulze]

Christophe Mutricy wrote:
> Le dim 03 jun 07 à 16:46 +0200, Martin Schulze a écrit :
> > retitle 427367 vlc should support colons in filenames
> > > http://www.meebey.net/temp/Tech%20Talk:%20Linus%20Torvalds%20on%20git.avi
> > 
> > Correction, it seems that the colon was the offender.  Thus, please
> > fix the colon handling.  Not every filename containing a colon is a
> > URL, especially not if a file with the same name exists locally.
> 
> It has been fixed in upstream svn trunk
> (https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/20678).

Cool!

> In the mean time you can use vlc file://foo:bar.avi

Even easier is vlc `pwd`/foo:bar.avi, i.e using the full path.
But still, it's counter-intuitive.  I'm glad it's fixed upstream.

Regards,

	Joey

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