Mplayer can't play a movie in Korean Language environment.

[Gazrang]

Binary package hint: mplayer

I use Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on my ThinkPad in Korean Language environment. All menus and home subdirectories are Korean thanks to quality localization.

I installed mplayer via Synaptic. But mplayer fails to play video which located in directory with Korean Character in its location. It does play a movie very well when the directory name is only English Character. I think this is somewhat annoying bug because I should place my movies on uncomfortable places to see movies.

I hope developers find the cause of this bug.

[Gazrang (gazrang)]

I found some workaround about this bug from the web.

"/usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop ", which contains
==========================================
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=MPlayer
GenericName=Multimedia player
Comment=Multimedia player
Comment[de]=Multimedia-Player
Comment[es]=Reproductor multimedia
Comment[fr]=Lecteur multimédia
Comment[it]=Lettore multimediale
Icon=mplayer
TryExec=gmplayer
Exec=gmplayer %F
Terminal=false
Categories=GTK;AudioVideo;Audio;Video;Player;TV;
==========================================

you should change "Exec=gmplayer %u" to "Exec=gmplayer %F", this is a quick solution. But I think that It should be fixed by mplayer itself, not by users.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you please tell us if this bug is still not fixed?