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Hi. Forgive me if this is an old issue.
I noticed recently trying to launch VLC to play a file on removable media from Konqueror, the file path passed to VLC is messed up.
Should be: file:///media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3 Is: file:///home/user/system%3/media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3
The file association has "/bin/vlc --start-from-file %U", I looked at some other file associations and %U appears to be correct.
TDE applications do not have this problem, kedit or kpdf just show "system:/media/user/sdb1/filename.xxx" and I checked, those use %U in file associations.
Any ideas? Where is the list of URL shortcuts so I can try things other than %U?
Curt-
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On 2022/02/21 11:16 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
Hi. Forgive me if this is an old issue.
I noticed recently trying to launch VLC to play a file on removable media from Konqueror, the file path passed to VLC is messed up.
Should be: file:///media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3 Is: file:///home/user/system%3/media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3
The file association has "/bin/vlc --start-from-file %U", I looked at some other file associations and %U appears to be correct.
TDE applications do not have this problem, kedit or kpdf just show "system:/media/user/sdb1/filename.xxx" and I checked, those use %U in file associations.
Any ideas? Where is the list of URL shortcuts so I can try things other than %U?
Curt-
Hi Curt, media:/ (or system:/media) is a TDE based protocol, so all TDE application understand it. Non TDE applications (like VLC) won't understand a media:/ URL, hence the error. They need the full path of the file. If you use R14.1.0-dev, you can right click a media icon and select the "open system folder" option to add the media using the full path. That should work fine.
Hope this helps. Cheers Michele
On Tuesday 22 of February 2022 13:43:50 Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
On 2022/02/21 11:16 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
Hi. Forgive me if this is an old issue.
I noticed recently trying to launch VLC to play a file on removable media from Konqueror, the file path passed to VLC is messed up.
Should be: file:///media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3 Is: file:///home/user/system%3/media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3
The file association has "/bin/vlc --start-from-file %U", I looked at some other file associations and %U appears to be correct.
TDE applications do not have this problem, kedit or kpdf just show "system:/media/user/sdb1/filename.xxx" and I checked, those use %U in file associations.
Any ideas? Where is the list of URL shortcuts so I can try things other than %U?
Curt-
Hi Curt, media:/ (or system:/media) is a TDE based protocol, so all TDE application understand it. Non TDE applications (like VLC) won't understand a media:/ URL, hence the error. They need the full path of the file. If you use R14.1.0-dev, you can right click a media icon and select the "open system folder" option to add the media using the full path. That should work fine.
Hope this helps. Cheers Michele
You can see the problem discussed within the TDE/tdebase#224 - originally inaccurately named as "symbolic links":
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/issues/224
Cheers
On 2/22/22, Michele Calgaro via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
If you use R14.1.0-dev, you can right click a media icon and select the "open system folder" option to add the media using the full path. That should work fine.
Yes, "Open Media System Folder" does work as expected.
Thank you, that's a good work-around.
Curt-
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