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playlist format showing names with chinese characters

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 07:02
by cleon
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.

Re: playlist format showing names with chinese characters

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 17:53
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
It should work fine with all those formats. The problem is most probably the metadata within the media files, rather than within the playlist.

Re: playlist format showing names with chinese characters

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:04
by cleon
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>

Re: playlist format showing names with chinese characters

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 15:06
by cleon
Any suggestion? :?: