VLC on Ubuntu can’t play files in folders with special chars?

archisgore — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18:00 +0000

Now this was way too stupid and annoying that I had to take the trouble and spread the word. I have some videos in a path where some folder names contain characters like +, (, and ). VLC threw some wierdo “could not open file” error (I didn’t care to read it much).

Copied the file to my root and double-clicked, and it just worked.

I’m sure most of you expect me to fix the bug myself – which I really wouldn’t mind if I didn’t have to go through the process of submitting a patch upstream.

Tagged: error, Folders, path, special characters, ubuntu, VLC

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VLC on Ubuntu can’t play files in folders with special chars?