Telnet and pathname .....

[Mimiru]

Hi,

I'm under linux .......

and i'm wondering how can I add a file with special characters in the name as input for vod, broadcast or schedule mode.

eg :
my file is : /var/vod/AFile WithSpace.avi

I've tried :
new test vod input /var/vod/AFile WithSpace.avi mux mp2t enabled
new test vod input /var/vod/AFile\ WithSpace.avi mux mp2t enabled
new test vod input "/var/vod/AFile WithSpace.avi" mux mp2t enabled
new test vod input "/var/vod/AFile\ WithSpace.avi" mux mp2t enabled

none works ..... but it works if I rename the file ........
Is there any way to make it works without renaming the file ?
what is the format that vlc use for the file path ?
because it's possible in windows but it's quite weird ("C:\my rep\\SecondRep\\myvideo.avi")


Thanks

[dionoea]

quotes should work fine (at least in 0.8.5). If you have an older version it might be buggy.

[Mimiru]

like that :

new test vod input '/var/vod/AFile WithSpace.avi' mux mp2t enabled



?

[dionoea]

yeah (or using double quotes)

[Mimiru]

with 0.8.5 :

it works with space with quotes

but not with special caracters like those who have an accent ......

[Mimiru]

there is still no issue for the accents in folder name ?

do I need to create a new post for this ?


Thanks

[michaeljk]

There's not only a problem with special chars. I'm using the following configuration:

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new test vod setup test input dvdsimple://e:\test setup test output #transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=2048,ab=128} setup test enabled

"dvdsimple://e:\test" is a directory with AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS subdirs, a copy of a dvd. This works just fine - but if I want to move this directory, e.g. to "dvdsimple://e:\media\dvds\test" it doesn't work anymore

VLC gives the following error when I try to play the file:

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livedotcom error: PLAY failed No RTSP session is currently in progress main error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://192.168.0.177:5554/test'

By the way:
If I configure several vod-streams in my VLM-configuration file, the load-command takes very long - I'm using 2-3 directories at this time and it takes 5 secs after the command "load vlm.conf" via telnet. What if I have configured 100 directories? 300 seconds? Is this normal?

I'm using VLC 0.8.5.

[Mimiru]

Oh I had the same trouble two month ago ...... with files .......

If I remember well .....

you need to change this : e:\folder\toto
to this : e:\\folder\toto

Don't know why ......

[michaeljk]

Hmm.. that doesn't work either - but if you use

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e:\\folder\\toto

it will work, thank you

Seems to be a problem with escaping the backslashes, so you always have to use it twice in your path.

The "load-problem" now still exists for me - I've just tested it, now it takes approx. 10 seconds to load a VLM-list with 6 entries It seems that VLC scans the whole directories/files or something like that when I execute the command...

[Mimiru]

I'm under a linux platform ......

loading 250 videos in one raw take to the comp 1/2 sec (the time for the telnet interface to react ..... a lot of output)

So I guess it doesn't help you .......

but I've seen that it requires hard drive speed to load and enable anything ..... The slowdown might be due to your hard drive speed ........

try to defrag it ...... use another hard drive than the one that is running your windows ...... place the hard drive in a separate data cable .... lonely (if you are in PATA)