Bug report: ftp password cannot start with "@" symbol

[FreshJr]

Hello,

For the FTP portion of VLC 2.3.0 downloaded from http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... -2.3.0.ipa the password cannot start with the "@" symbol.

Starting with other symbols like "*" is allowed, but "@" will not permit access to the server. Must be something with how VLC passes the password.

If it is combined into a format like "ftp://user:pass@ip.address", I can see how an extra "@" would confuse the system. This is just my speculation.

Side notes:

1) is there anyway to see if VLC is doing hardware or software decoding when watching video?
2) any news on why apple has pulled the app from the store ?:twisted:

VLC is my favorite player keep up the good work

[fkuehne]

You are right about the at-sign. We don't URL encode password (tbh, I'm not sure if that's legal) so the syntax is broken if an at-sign is part of the password.

1) current releases of VLC for iOS always do software decoding, future releases won't but you will not be able to tell (unless you run it in Xcode and check the debug logs or closely monitor battery life)
2) we don't have information to share at this point, sorry.