[MPlayer-advusers] MPlayer does not escape symbols in rtsp URLs (possible bug)

[marlon at freemail.gr]

Hello.

Let's have an rtsp stream: rtsp://nice.site.com/file

The stream requires username and password so the cmd line
becomes:

mplayer rtsp://username:password@nice.site.com/file

Now if the password includes the "@" symbol ("pass at word")
the cmd line becomes:

mplayer rtsp://username:pass@word@nice.site.com/file

Bue that causes error due to the fact that the password is parsed
as "pass" and not "pass at word". Apart from that, there is a "could
not resolve" error as the "nice.site.com" is mislooked as
"word at nice.site.com".

Escaping the first "@" with "%40" or "\@" doesn't work either.

Regards.