Download from SMB, FTP

[tobi_de]

Hi,

I came across VLC for iOS and am excited that my favourite player is now available on iOS. I like that VLC is able to sort Music into folders and everything works fine when I sync files via iTunes.

Now what I would like is to use VLC to directly access my NAS and to download files from the NAS for offline listening. I see two options for that, one is FTP and the other is SMB. Both work *in principle*.

With FTP my issue is that special characters get boggled up. My FTP server is configured to use Unicode as I need both Russian and German characters. VLC on iOS shows the wrong characters and when I click on such a file with from characters it does not work because obviously VLC sends a string as filename to the server that the latter can't parse. FTP works fine for file names without special characters and allows me to download files, which automatically get grouped into folders. I like that, but I need the functionality to use Unicode FTP filenames.

With SMB, file names with special characters work like a charm. However, unlike FTP, SMB only seems to offer streaming, but not dowloading media. Why is that?

Is there any hope that at least one of the two issues could get fixed?

Best regards
tobi

[unidan]

Hi,

With SMB, file names with special characters work like a charm. However, unlike FTP, SMB only seems to offer streaming, but not dowloading media. Why is that?

Because there is code architecture challenge, but it will be done for every VLC flavour.

With FTP my issue is that special characters get boggled up. My FTP server is configured to use Unicode as I need both Russian and German characters. VLC on iOS shows the wrong characters and when I click on such a file with from characters it does not work because obviously VLC sends a string as filename to the server that the latter can't parse. FTP works fine for file names without special characters and allows me to download files, which automatically get grouped into folders. I like that, but I need the functionality to use Unicode FTP filenames.

This might be an issue that you need to report on the issue tracker https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-ios