[MPlayer-users] MPlayer won't open filenames with non latin characters

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:26:59AM +0100, RVM wrote:
> This happens to me on Windows XP (in Spanish), I don't know what charset 
> Windows uses, or how the filenames are stored in the hard disc (I'm using 
> FAT32 partitions).
> 
> I created this bat file (launch_mplayer.bat) on the desktop:
> 
> cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Ricardo\My Documents\mplayer-r25386-mingw\"
> mplayer.exe %1 > mplayer_log.txt 2>&1
> 
> Now if I drag a video file (with latin characters) to the launch_mplayer.bat 
> icon, mplayer plays it.
> But if the filename contains characters from another alphabet then it doesn't.

The you made the association incorrectly. You must tell explorer to use
the 8.3 filename (I do not remember how, but it is possible).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger