Please explain title encoding. It's not plain text, but it's not URL encoded either!

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Please explain title encoding. It's not plain text, but it's not URL encoded either!

Postby spection » 12 Aug 2019 21:06

I've set the preferences option "Change title according to current media" to $F. I've got a tool that launches a video path with VLC then waits for a window to exist which has the correct title (or substring of the title). The problem is, the window title that appears is neither in simple plain text, nor is it fully encoded into URL format. It's some hybrid or something that I don't understand, and hence cannot match!

How do I encode the video file path into the correct VLC title format?

I need this urgently, please.


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Re: Please explain title encoding. It's not plain text, but it's not URL encoded either!

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 13 Aug 2019 22:20

$F is just the URI.
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Re: Please explain title encoding. It's not plain text, but it's not URL encoded either!

Postby Ed Edison » 14 Aug 2019 21:14

Hello,

I don't well understand your problem; but, when I want, in a local folder, to get:
- the video filename for a given video title,
- the video title for a given filename,
I use Folder.GetDetailsOf method (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/folder-getdetailsof) with PowerShell; my friend Google will give to you many examples!

Good luck.

Ed.

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Re: Please explain title encoding. It's not plain text, but it's not URL encoded either!

Postby spection » 21 Aug 2019 11:15

Yes, I was confused. I definitely saw spaces in the title encoded with plus signs in some circumstance, but that wasn't VLC's fault. I've learned that I just need to encode the path into URI syntax to search window titles for it.

Thanks to all.


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