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Trying to include non-alphabet characters ('$' and '-')to name of Stream created by VLM console. Stream is created but could not be started, following command

curl -s -u ":pwd" -G "http://host:8080/requests/vlm_cmd.xml" --data-urlencode "command=control test$this-stream play"

output no error, even if it is run multiple times. Than following command

curl -s -u ":pwd" -G "http://host:8080/requests/vlm_cmd.xml" --data-urlencode "command=control test$this-stream stop"

give me en error "control : unknown error" which signalise the stream is not playing.

Is there a list of non-alphabetic characters which should be avoided in Stream names?

I would say avoid $ % { } ' "

Thanks, look it is working with tilda.