phonon xine mediaobject and badly encoded filenames

[Marcos Dione]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:16:39AM +0100, Marcos Dione wrote:
>     in other news, the gstreamer backend seems to suffer from a similar
> problem. playing a file successuly with this patch and the xine backend, I get:
> 
> bool Phonon::Xine::XineStream::xineOpen(Phonon::State) xine_open succeeded for m_mrl = file:/%2Fhome%2Fmdione%2Fmedia%2Fmusic%2F%2FSoda%20Stereo%2FEl%20%C3%BAltimo%20concierto%2F19-Un%20mill%F3n%20de%20a%F1os%20luz.mp3
> 
>     but with gstreamer:
> 
> (<unknown>:10963): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_make_from_uri: assertion `gst_uri_is_valid (uri)' failed
> 
>     I will continue investigate that once I finished with this patch, which
> besides actually commiting it, I think I just done.

    I found out that simple setting the scheme ('file') for the url was enough
to make this backend work. now it only rests to define if this is desirable or
we should make it 'compatible' to how the xine backend works; namely, it adds
the 'file' scheme if it's not there.

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