Bug#785690: libav-tools: avprobe fail on file with colon in the name

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Jonas Smedegaard]
> Such changed logic is too invasive in my opinion: It would mean that a 
> local file "hw:0" in current dir would break documented way of reading 
> ALSA hardware device #0.

Not really.  I proposed to only do it for (1) unknown protocols where
(2) the file exist.  Both need to be true for my proposal to make sense.
I assume hw: is a known protocol.  If it isn't, I fail to understand how
hw:0 can work. :)

> Seems better to me to treat this as a documentation issue: More
> consistently use the term URL instead of FILE, and move the note about
> default file: protocol closer to the top of the document.

Well, for me a better error message would have helped, if it had
suggested to use file:.  I doubt better documentation would have made me
less surprised.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen