[mythtv-users] Switching to mythtv

[Pshem Kowalczyk]

On 19/07/05, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
> > 2. mythVideo - I'm trying to play a file from a remote windows share
> > using the standard mplayer command, unfortunately there are spaces in
> > the file name and mplayer tries to play every single part of the name
> > as a file and obviously it fails. I tried to add "" around the %s but
> > it didn't help. Mplayer works without any problems from command line.
> 
>  I just tried this from mythvideo and it works for me (latest source as
> of an hour ago). I copied a video and renamed it to "Word1 Word2 Word3.avi"
> and it played without a problem. I don't have awindows share on my network
> to try with at the moment.
> 

So I must be doing something wrong, because when I start mythfrontend
from an xterminal I can see it trying to open every single part of the
path as a file. I'll try to play more with that when I get back home.

regards
pshemko