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I pull episodes from my local plex server into vlc for viewing when I don’t have signal.

I’ve noticed that VLC will rename or title the episodes based on the title in Plex, and often titles can have characters that are illegal as filenames, mostly the forward slash character. “/“

Is there any way to request illegal character sanitizing or replacement for files? Episodes with this specific character are unplayable and do not appear in the file picker screen for playback.

How do you download from your Plex server. With our native Plex integration or via UPnP?

How do you download from your Plex server. With our native Plex integration or via UPnP?

I just double checked, “universal plug’n’play upnp” under the File Servers section

It looks like this could be same root problem as https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=163882

But I’m hoping since vlc takes the display name of the file from the plex meta data perhaps a little regex magic or string.replace wizardry could happen in between

Yes, we should sanitise that. Thanks for the immediate follow-up!

Yes, we should sanitise that. Thanks for the immediate follow-up!

It’s much appreciated and I look forward to it