vo paramater outdir cannot specify absolute paths on windows

[benadler@…]

On windows, a command like "mplayer -vo jpeg:outdir=c:\test:quality=100..."
results in the following error:

jpeg: Parsing suboptions.
Could not parse arguments at the position indicated below:
outdir=c:\

^{(the pointer is right under the backslash)}

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

I guess this is because mplayer thinks the colon from c:\ is supposed to split
parameters, but here, its my only hope of specifying an absolute outdir on windows.

[reimar]

try -vo jpeg:outdir="c:\test" instead.

[benadler@…]

(In reply to comment #1)

try -vo jpeg:outdir="c:\test" instead.

This doesn't work, the quuotes are simply ignored. I tried single and double
quotes, or using a backslash right before the colon. Nothing helps.

[benadler@…]

This bug is still present in 1.0rc1-3.4.2. If you could please tell me where the
options are parsed in the code, I'd like to try and fix this!

[reimar]

Read the documentation on your shell more closely. You must make sure it does
not eat the " (same for \ btw), e.g. by doing
-vo jpeg:outdir=\"c:\\test\"
or
-vo jpeg:outdir='"c:\test"'