Not playing songs with spaces in file names?

[Orville Bennett]

On May 14, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:

> Martin T. Sandsmark wrote:
>> On Friday 15. May 2009 00:35:38 Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>> I hope so, but I just can't see why libraries that are (very) good  
>>> for
>>> output (xine and vlc) are being considered as a solution for a  
>>> system
>>> that is meant to be for both input and output which is what Phonon  
>>> aims
>>> to be.
>>
>> VLC supports v4l and v4l2. Another possiblity is to manually  
>> implement v4l(2)
>> support in the backend, which is unsexy, but also works.
>>
>>> Gstreamer just fits so perfectly into the goals of Phonon that I  
>>> can't
>>> really see why people don't want to use it!
>>
>> Well, not that I've worked much with gstreamer, but it is a bit  
>> buggy, and I
>> disagree with some of the design decisions they've taken.
>>
>> But it is probably what is going to win out, considering that it is  
>> the
>> default in Qt's Phonon.
>
> If VLC has the same licensing deal that allows it to play MP3s
> legitimately in the U.S., I wouldn't be terribly surprised if VLC ends
> up replacing Gstreamer -- especially if it's being maintained by  
> someone
> in the VLC community and is less buggy.
>
> It's interesting that Gstreamer is cross platform (AFAICR) but they're
> not using just that one backend on Windows/Mac/Linux...
Well we all know that "cross-platform" is just a really nice way of  
saying "works kinda ok on all platforms" don't we? :-)