[Bug 747104] Windows adaptation remarks

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747104

--- Comment #10 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> ---
(In reply to Harry from comment #0)

> 2. File-names
> 
> One is obliged to use the Unix path separator (/) instead of the Windows one
> (\), at least on gst-launch-1.0.exe (haven't gotten yet into programming).

Windows-style paths should work on filesrc and others, if not that would be a
bug. Make sure to properly escape the backslashes in Windows paths, like you
would need to do for any other commandline application too.

For things that expect URIs (e.g. playbin), you must provide a valid URI.
Windows does not really make that easy, but like in any other software using
URIs you have to do something like
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/davris/FileSchemeURIs.doc

See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx

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