[Thunar-dev] Conditional "Open" command

[mmassonnet at gmail.com]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:33:55PM +0100, mike wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:41:43PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Imagine the following situation: you have two files in a directory, a video and
> > a subtitle file for this video.
> > 
> > Now just calling, e. g. mplayer with these two files won’t do since it requires
> > the "-sub" option to recognize the subtitle file.
> > 
> > Creating a custom action also doesn’t work since the custom command won’t be
> > displayed as soon as both the video and subtitle file are selected. (Pattern:
> > "*.ass;*.srt;*.ssa", for video and text files)
> > 
> > Any idea how I could accomplish this in Thunar? It would be great if Thunar
> > could do all of this by itself and required me only to select the usual "Open"
> > action.
> 
> Most probably, you have a b0rked mplayer.  Here it works just fine if I
> open a video.avi file with Thunar that has on its side a file called
> video.srt or video.sub.  It works also without problem with VLC and
> Totem.

Or from command line.

> 
> The desktop entry file I have for mplayer is not villain:
> % cat mplayer-usercreated.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=Application
> NoDisplay=true
> Name=mplayer
> Exec=mplayer
> MimeType=video/x-msvideo;video/x-ms-wmv;video/quicktime;video/mpeg;application/x-flash-video
> 
> 
> But if you need a quick solution for mplayer, use a wrapper script.
> #!/bin/sh
> test -f "${1%\.*}.srt" && exec mplayer -sub "${1%\.*}.srt" $*
> test -f "${1%\.*}.sub" && exec mplayer -sub "${1%\.*}.sub" $*
> exec mplayer $*
> 
> Put it inside ~/.local/bin/mplayer for instance, and make sure your PATH
> starts with that path.
> 
> > Regards, Mathias
> 
> HTH,
> Cheez!
> Mike