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Posted: **02 Aug 2007 18:41**

Sometimes the directory listings are pretty long. It would be much more convenient to have the option to hide the directory and only show the filename.

Posted: **02 Aug 2007 18:55**

Improvments for this have been made in the nightly builds (trunk).

Posted: **02 Aug 2007 19:01**

Excellent, thank you. XD

Posted: **02 Aug 2007 19:13**

I downloaded the nightly build from yesterday 20070801. I can't find any options to hide the directory for the playlist items. Is it a command line option?

Posted: **04 Aug 2007 08:06**

ok I wrote a small php code that scans the videolan directory for m3u files and adds an "EXTINF" title based on the file name (to hide the directories). I can't really check how long the file is so I entered -1 so it hides the time, but that settings is intended for streams. I really don't expect this to be used but at least it will be a personal reference in case I forget where the file is.

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<?
// Written by Jimmy Ruska (jimmyr.com)  Aug 4 2007
// Backup your playlists before you use this. It's not recursive.
// Because the directory structure is different in linux I added commented out code.

/**********************************************************************************************
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
**********************************************************************************************/

// $dir="/home/you/playlists/";
$dir = "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLan\\VLC\\";
$dh = opendir($dir) or die ("could not open dir");

while ( !(($file = readdir($dh)) === false)){
if (!(eregi("\.m3u$",$file))) continue;

$path="$dir\\$file";

@$handle = fopen("$path", "rb");
$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);

if (ereg("EXTINF",$contents)){
echo "Already Processed - $path\n";
continue;
}

// preg_match_all('|.*[^/]+\n|i', $contents, $return);
preg_match_all('|.*[^\\\]+\n|i', $contents, $return);
$numElements = count($return[0]);

$remade="";

for($counter=0; $counter < $numElements; $counter++)
{
if (ereg("^C\:",$return[0][$counter]))
$remade.=ereg_replace("_"," ",preg_replace("|.*\\\([^\\\]+)\.[A-z]{2,4}|i","#EXTINF:-1,\\1",$return[0][$counter]));
// $remade.=ereg_replace("_"," ",preg_replace("|.*/([^/]+)\.[A-z]{2,4}|i","#EXTINF:-1,\\1",$return[0][$counter]));
$remade.=$return[0][$counter];
}


$open = fopen($path, "wb");
fwrite($open, $remade);
fclose($open);

echo "Finished Processing - $path\n";
}

?>

you don't need apache installed just php.

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Hide directory on playlist and only show file names.

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