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

[Stroller]

On 20 Dec 2007, at 02:50, RVM wrote:
> El Jueves, 20 de Diciembre de 2007 03:24, The Wanderer escribió:
>> 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
>>
>> I'm having a hard time imagining why this approach might be  
>> necessary...
>
> Because I couldn't pass the filename from command line (on a  
> command prompt
> window). I can't type Japanese characters and tab autocompletion  
> replaces
> them with ???.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, as an alternative you should be able to  
open a DOS window type "C:\path\to\mplayer.exe " and drag & drop the  
video file onto the DOS window. The path\to\the\video.file should be  
added to the current command line.

Of course, this will probably give the same symptoms as you describe  
in your other posts, but it's worth trying to be sure.

Stroller.