strange Xine drag'n'drop Problem

[Florian Friedrich]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 fedora-list at webterminate.com wrote:

> Background: FC3, upgraded from FC2; using KDE; Xine installed from Freshrpms.
> I've noticed that Drag'n'dropping files into the Xine player window (or 
> starting Xine by double clicking on a file) only appears to work when the 
> filename including its path is longer than about 80 characters. For shorter 
> filenames Xine states that the file name might be wrong, and indeed displays 
> a corrupted (truncated + weird extra characters) version of the filename in 
> its error message.
> Renaming the file to make its name long enough makesd it useable for Xine!
> 
> Any ideas? Is Xine to blame, or is it KDE? Am I the only one experiencing 
> this? I've tried with different users, so it seems to be independent of any 
> user specific KDE or Xine config settings.
> 

Since there haven't been any replies yet, I've investigated further: After 
trying to reproduce the problem in Gnome the behaviour seems to have 
changed: Starting Xine by double clicking on a video file will now open 
and play the file correctly. However, any subsequent filename that is 
dragged into the Xine window gets corrupted if it is shorter than about 80 
characters. This is the same in KDE and Gnome.
I'm very confused, and could not find _any_ information on the Internet 
describing this situation. Please help me!

Thanks,

Florian



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