VLC don't stream videos over Microsoft Network

[elbimbo]

Hi!

After installing 1.1.0 version of VLC, I can't stream my videos to my laptop over Microsoft Home Network anymore.

I think that problem might be there that network address to my desktop computer have Scandinavian characters, so path to the video is \\pöytäkone\Videos. Previous versions of VLC there were no problem with that.

And other issue, that doesn't and haven't work is that you can't use "Play with VLC Media Player" right-click command in Windows Explorer over Microsoft Home Network. If I recall it right, it plays first video of the folder, but that's it.

If you have any solutions for there, please help!

El Bimbo

[VLC_help]

Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start playback, it will complain.

[elbimbo]

I already downloaded VLC 1.1.1, but the problem is the same and it seems to be the problem with those Scandinavian characters, because VLC changes those letters in host name to question marks.

Here's the log:

main debug: adding item `02 Freitags Immer.AVI' ( file://pöytäkone/elokuvat/Nikke%20Knatterton/02%20%20Freitags%20Immer.AVI )
main debug: Creating an input for '02 Freitags Immer.AVI'
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 2 items, index 0
main debug: processing request item 02 Freitags Immer.AVI node Playlist skip 0
main debug: resyncing on 02 Freitags Immer.AVI
main debug: 02 Freitags Immer.AVI is at 1
main debug: starting new item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for '02 Freitags Immer.AVI'
main debug: thread (input) created at priority 1 (../.././src/input/input.c:214)
main debug: thread started
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB
main debug: using timeshift path 'D:\Temp\SYSTEM~2'
main debug: `file://pöytäkone/elokuvat/Nikke%20Knatterton/02%20%20Freitags%20Immer.AVI' gives access `file' demux `' path `\\p??yt??kone\elokuvat\Nikke Knatterton\02 Freitags Immer.AVI'
main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='' path='\\p??yt??kone\elokuvat\Nikke Knatterton\02 Freitags Immer.AVI'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 2 candidates
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input
dvdnav warning: cannot open dvdnav
main debug: no fetch required for (null) (art currently (null))
main debug: no access_demux module matching "file" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 2251.000 ms - Total 2251.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 2251.000 ms)
main debug: creating access 'file' path='\\p??yt??kone\elokuvat\Nikke Knatterton\02 Freitags Immer.AVI'
main debug: looking for access module: 2 candidates
filesystem debug: opening file `\\p??yt??kone\elokuvat\Nikke Knatterton\02 Freitags Immer.AVI'
filesystem error: cannot open file \\p??yt??kone\elokuvat\Nikke Knatterton\02 Freitags Immer.AVI (No such file or directory)
main debug: no access module matching "file" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 2.000 ms - Total 2.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 2.000 ms)
main error: open of `file://pöytäkone/elokuvat/Nikke%20Knatterton/02%20%20Freitags%20Immer.AVI' failed: (null)
main debug: finished input
main debug: dead input
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 0m2.265625s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: changing item without a request (current 1/2)
main debug: nothing to play
qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input
main debug: TIMER input launching for '02 Freitags Immer.AVI' : 2500.000 ms - Total 2500.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 2500.000 ms)

[VLC_help]

Thanks eli kiitos. Ticket opened
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3931

[Ludrax]

This is not a valid URI. It is not supposed to work.

Previous versions of VLC there were no problem with that.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You meant file://pöytäkone/elokuvat/Nikke%20Knatterton/02%20%20Freitags%20Immer.AVI doesn't work, since it isn't a valid URI.

Try file:///pöytäkone/elokuvat/Nikke%20Knatterton/02%20%20Freitags%20Immer.AVI

[elbimbo]

Sorry, but I'm little confused.

Yes, there is a problem with VLC 1.1.0 and it's later releases (there were on problems with VLC 1.0.5 or it's previous versions).

Problem is that when network pathname contains Scandinavian characters (ä, ö, å), VLC handle those characters as question marks (as shown my previous post) and that's why pathname is invalid.

BR/

El Bimbo

[elbimbo]

I tested new 1.1.3 version to see if that bug, mentioned above, was fixed (well it wasn't) but I found new bug related to those Scandinavian characters.

When I try to play dvd media files from local disk and path contains those Scandinavian characters, I get this error message:

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "D:\TV-sarjat\Pokka Pitää\3. tuotantokausi\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://D:\TV-sarjat\Pokka Pitää\3. tuotantokausi\'. Check the log for details.
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "D:\TV-sarjat\Pokka Pitää\3. tuotantokausi\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://D:\TV-sarjat\Pokka Pitää\3. tuotantokausi\'. Check the log for details.
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "D:\TV-sarjat\Pokka Pitää\3. tuotantokausi\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://D:\TV-sarjat\Pokka Pitää\3. tuotantokausi\'. Check the log for details.

Yes, I can still watch those movies, but that bug messes up dvd menus. There are no problems with single movies files even when the path contains Scandinavian characters (ä, ö, å).

So I'm stuck with 1.0.5 version...

BR/

El Bimbo

[VLC_help]

That DVDread issue is already in trac
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3816

[Ludrax]

Sorry, but I'm little confused.

seems it worked because of former developers...

VLC is becoming like google now ..

In addition to that, like they are affiliated with Opera...

[elbimbo]

Seems that my original post of this non-ASCII character issue is now closed, because: "I don't care how broken previous versions are. This URI is INVALID I-N-V-A-L-I-D. You cannot have non-ASCII characters in URIs. See RFC3986 §2.5 for the reference."

Well, then VLC is only software that can't handle those Extended ASCII characters in Windows that I have ever seen. Even "Desktop" is called "Työpöytä" in Finnish versions of Windows, so I can't put anything in there also. I don't understand anything what should and should not be, but if previous versions was working, actually they seem to be broken. And these new versions, that works like crap, they works just the way they should be. Too fuzzy logic to me.

EB

[Ludrax]

...or just app developers not thinking beyond the English language.

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=81671

[Ludrax]

Looks like VLC still translates accented letters (éçà) with "??" chars when accessing the Freebox FTP server
Rgds

For information it's work on 1.0.5.

FTP filenames with accented letters

I don't understand anything what should and should not be
EB

From a users point of view RFCs are not of interest. Users do not want to know why things work or not - they should work - period.

UNC paths do not work with non-ASCII characters in host
that's why someone will probably buy at least Office Home and Student...