[MPlayer-users] load the file URL from a text file to avoid Unicode/non-latin path problems from shell

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 09:29:33AM +0100, Oliver Seitz wrote:
> 
> >is there any way to let mplayer read the file path from a text file.
> 
> The file is called a playlist then. If it contains only one
> filename, that file is played.

And it won't help one bit.
The problem is that you need to use a name for the file that works
with standard C functions, like open or fopen.
Depending on system (configuration, file system) that means one of
1) Use the 8.3 ("short") name
2) You can't

Seriously, what did you expect from the masters of vendor lock-in,
did you really expect being able to even open a file without using
some proprietary API?