Bug 39091

Summary:	Video playback fails if the path to video files contains accented characters
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Dario Chiappetta <kzarmail>
Component:	Presentation	Assignee:	Caolán McNamara <caolanm>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.4.1 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Dario Chiappetta 2011-07-09 06:39:39 UTC

I've tried to insert the following video file (divx) on a slide via "Insert>Movie and sound":

/home/dario/università/tiegccdemo.avi

It doesn't work: the video space is shown as a gray square during the presentation.

However, if I load the same video file from my home dir (/home/dario/tiegccdemo.avi) it works like a charm.

The same happens if I load the video file from /home/dario/tmp/ (works) and /home/dario/tmpù/ (doesn't work).

I've found a similar bug, involving cyrillic letters, here:
http://lists.suse.com/opensuse-bugs/2011-04/msg02677.html

Comment 1 Caolán McNamara 2011-07-09 06:51:49 UTC

output of locale please ?
i.e. is it a non-utf locale is what I'm wondering

Comment 2 Caolán McNamara 2011-07-09 06:53:03 UTC

oh, and is this gnome or kde or something else. It may be the file selector itself and that's per desktop

Comment 3 Caolán McNamara 2011-07-09 07:00:43 UTC

hmm, looking at the gstreamer specific code, I suspect its simply the mangling into US_ASCII.

Now fixed (I bet) by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libs-core/commit/?id=6b211c4735b3965429e82dc100ef0cd0db810fed

Comment 4 Dario Chiappetta 2011-07-09 07:07:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> hmm, looking at the gstreamer specific code, I suspect its simply the mangling
> into US_ASCII.
> 
> Now fixed (I bet) by
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libs-core/commit/?id=6b211c4735b3965429e82dc100ef0cd0db810fed

What a speed: thank you!

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