Christophe Mutricy wrote: > Le dim 03 jun 07 à 16:46 +0200, Martin Schulze a écrit : > > retitle 427367 vlc should support colons in filenames > > > http://www.meebey.net/temp/Tech%20Talk:%20Linus%20Torvalds%20on%20git.avi > > > > Correction, it seems that the colon was the offender. Thus, please > > fix the colon handling. Not every filename containing a colon is a > > URL, especially not if a file with the same name exists locally. > > It has been fixed in upstream svn trunk > (https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/20678).
Cool! > In the mean time you can use vlc file://foo:bar.avi Even easier is vlc `pwd`/foo:bar.avi, i.e using the full path. But still, it's counter-intuitive. I'm glad it's fixed upstream. Regards, Joey -- GNU GPL: "The source will be with you... always." Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.