diff --git a/legacy/emotion/src/modules/gstreamer/emotion_gstreamer.c b/legacy/emotion/src/modules/gstreamer/emotion_gstreamer.c
index 0295d4f3fe..8c4c3a6ff1 100644
--- a/legacy/emotion/src/modules/gstreamer/emotion_gstreamer.c
+++ b/legacy/emotion/src/modules/gstreamer/emotion_gstreamer.c
@@ -385,7 +385,11 @@ em_file_open(const char   *file,
         eina_strbuf_append(sbuf, "file://");
         if (strncmp(file, "./", 2) == 0)
           file += 2;
-        if (*file != '/')
+	if (strstr(file, ":/") != NULL)
+	  { /* We absolutly need file:///C:/ under Windows, so adding it here */
+             eina_strbuf_append(sbuf, "/");
+	  }
+	else if (*file != '/')
           {
              char tmp[PATH_MAX];