On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Hendrik Schreiber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Hendrik Schreiber wrote: > >> On Jun 18, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> >>> Hendrik Schreiber <hs@...> writes: >>> >>>> On Windows, the scheme part (file:) is always followed >>>> by a bunch of slashes, usually three (file:///), >>> >>> three sounds like a very unlikely number to me. >> >> Yes, it sounds odd, but please read >> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx > > Anyhow - the only Windows file URL FFmpeg accepts is something like: > > file:C:/somePath/someFile.mp3 > > And that is definitely not a valid URL by any standard I am aware of. >
While it may be bugged, why even use a file: URL and not just a plain path to the file, and avoid this whole mess? _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
