[vlc] Re: File name support...

Gildas Bazin gbazin at altern.org
Mon Apr 5 12:57:09 CEST 2004


On Monday 05 April 2004 12:24, Jason Luka wrote:
> Michael Benning wrote:
> 
> >VLC player ver. 0.7.1 doesn't support file names with spaces when
> >launched through windows explorer.  When the file is added to the play
> >list, VLC seperates the file name into seperate items on the list when
> >it encounters spaces.  Is this bug going to be addressed in the next
> >version or is there a patch I can apply to this version to fix this
> >problem???  
> >
> >
> I reported the same problem in the Fedora version about three days ago. 
> The nightly build has this problem fixed already from what I'm told.
> 

The problem on Windows isn't the same one.

Here it is actually a user mistake.
When you associate a file extension with VLC on Windows you need to surround 
the filename with quotes (eg. "%1").

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Gildas

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