Thanks. Finally I must use tripple quote cahracter (windows shell removes first and last character and pass to mplayer only middle quote character). This works fine: mplayer.exe -ss 900 -frames 1 -vo jpeg:outdir="""c:\tmp""" -vf scale=320:200 -nosound a.avi ----- Original Message ----- From: Reimar Döffinger [mailto:Reimar.Doeffinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] To: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports [mailto:mplayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Subject: Re: Unable to use colon in option value > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 09:55:41PM +0100, Pavel Stánek wrote: > > If I use colon in option value, I get error in parsing arguments. > > I use jpeg output with option "outdir", value of a "outdir" option is > "c:\tmp", but mplayer parse value as another option "\". > > > > Repro (OS: windows): > > mplayer.exe -ss 900 -frames 1 -vo jpeg:outdir=c:\tmp -vf scale=320:200 > -nosound a.avi > > Just quote it: > -vo jpeg:outdir="c:\tmp" > Make sure you quote it in a way so that your shell/command line will not > remove the " but passes them to MPlayer. > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users