Colons in Snapshot Filename

[jbutler]

Version 0.9 includes a cool feature by which you can insert a video's time code into the filename. If you specify "$T" (no quotation marks) in the video prefix option, it'll be replaced by the time code.

In the Windows version, the time code looks like 00_05_25, with underscores placed where colons normally would be. However, in the Mac version it tries to insert colons -- like 00:05:25. However, Mac OS X does not really like colons in filenames and replaces them with slashes when the file name displays in the finder. E.g., if the prefix were vlcsnap$T, the file name would look something like this:

vlcsnap00/05/25.jpg

The OS somehow remembers the colons, however, and if you FTP the file to a Linux box, the colons come back. This causes a variety of problems.

Would it be possible for the Mac version (same for Linux?) to generate time code with underscores and not colons?

Thanks for any assistance.

[fkuehne]

Sure. Thanks for the hint! This feature wasn't developed by a contributor running Mac OS X, so this wasn't tested yet.

[fkuehne]

You can follow the progress on this issue in ticket #1362 in our bugtracker.

[jbutler]

Thanks for the quick response! I'll track the bug from now on.

Regards,

[funman]

it should be fixed in revision 24338

[jbutler]

Cool.

Any idea when the Mac OS X Intel nightly builds will be updated? Currently, the most recent one is 4 January 2008.

Thanks.

[fkuehne]

As soon as I fixed the server. Gimme a day or two