Opening files with special characters

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neosettler
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Opening files with special characters

Postby neosettler » 14 Mar 2018 04:08

Greetings,

I'm using SDK 3.0 (Windows) and while trying to open file, for instance: 360° Eiffel Tower.mp4, I'm getting main input error: Your input can't be opened.

What is the best practice regarding file names? If needed, a standar c++ library would be best.

Thank you,

mfkl
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Re: Opening files with special characters

Postby mfkl » 14 Mar 2018 04:30

Which SDK do you mean? Which function are you calling exactly?
https://mfkl.github.io

neosettler
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Re: Opening files with special characters

Postby neosettler » 14 Mar 2018 15:09

Oups, my bad.

It would be VLC and the function is libvlc_media_new_path.

Thank you,

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Re: Opening files with special characters

Postby mfkl » 15 Mar 2018 08:27

I assume you're calling the C libvlc_media_new_path function directly in your C code? Please share that code with the MRL used.
Are you using UTF8 strings?
https://mfkl.github.io


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