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List:       gstreamer-devel
Subject:    Re: [gst-devel] URI's with '%' in them
From:       "Michael Smith" <msmith () xiph ! org>
Date:       2008-07-30 0:32:39
Message-ID: 3c1737210807291732s389c2812qbe7293424ec50d78 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Ash <hashbrown100@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Why is it that when I have a file with '%' in it, for example "a%.mp3", the
> uri cannot be found by playbin? For example doing gst-launch playbin
> uri="a%.mp3" fails. A few gstreamer players as well fail. Totem seems to
> work though. What are they converting the '%' to?

You have to pass a URI, not a filename, in the uri property.

For example:

/tmp/test.mp3 -> file:///tmp/test.mp3
/tmp/a%.mp3 -> file:///tmp/a%25.mp3

(the percentage sign is URL-escaped here)

Mike

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