Hi,
I checked with the several playlist format that saved from vlc including xspf, m3u, m3u8 , html and also .pls but find that
none of them can show videos with names containing traditional chinese characters. What I mean is that these characters cannot be seen directly from these files opened with a notepad in Windows. Is there any format that can do that?
What I in fact want is that to have a playlist format that I can put filenames with traditional chinese characters in it ( like the exported .html file) such as notepad but it is also can be played by vlc as a playlist.
So the new feature request/enhancement or improvement is to read and export to such playlist format.
Thank you.
playlist format showing names with chinese characters
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Re: playlist format showing names with chinese characters
It should work fine with all those formats. The problem is most probably the metadata within the media files, rather than within the playlist.
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Re: playlist format showing names with chinese characters
Hi,
Among the formats I find the .html is near what I want. The other will create unreadable characters.
Suppose you have a small database such as excel or csv that have path and filenames of your videos.
And you can write a simple program to create your own playlist from it.
So would the developer make enhancement to make it a playlist playable directly by vlc?
Will a "play" option in the window explorer work?
thanks
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="Generator" content="VLC media player" />
<meta name="Author" content="VLC, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" />
<title>VLC generated playlist</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #E4F3FF;
font-family: sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial;
font-size: 13px;
}
h1 {
color: #2D58AE;
font-size: 25px;
}
hr {
color: #555555;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Playlist</h1>
<hr />
<ol>
<li>小人國大歷險.ts ( 5:43)</li>
</ol>
<hr />
</body>
</html>
Among the formats I find the .html is near what I want. The other will create unreadable characters.
Suppose you have a small database such as excel or csv that have path and filenames of your videos.
And you can write a simple program to create your own playlist from it.
So would the developer make enhancement to make it a playlist playable directly by vlc?
Will a "play" option in the window explorer work?
thanks
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="Generator" content="VLC media player" />
<meta name="Author" content="VLC, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" />
<title>VLC generated playlist</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #E4F3FF;
font-family: sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial;
font-size: 13px;
}
h1 {
color: #2D58AE;
font-size: 25px;
}
hr {
color: #555555;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Playlist</h1>
<hr />
<ol>
<li>小人國大歷險.ts ( 5:43)</li>
</ol>
<hr />
</body>
</html>
Re: playlist format showing names with chinese characters
Any suggestion? 
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