[Resolved] Chinese characters in recent items

[Typecast]

I tried searching the forums and google for information about this but did not find anything useful. Since the issue is about Chinese Unicode characters i honestly may not be searching correctly. If there's already an answer for this question on these boards please direct me to that thread.

I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, Service Pack 1, Fully updated. Have verified behavior to be present with VLC 1.1.5 and 1.1.9.

I don't think this is a bug per se, just strange behavior that I'd like to verify. I start seeing oddly named files pop up it makes me a little curious.

This evening i noticed some strange directories showing up in recently/frequently accessed folders in Windows. By this i mean clicking the little right arrow beside Windows Explorer in the start menu's recent applications pane or right clicking the icon for a windows explorer instance on the start menu.

The two entries in question are 癤㩤⼯㩅 and 癤㩤⼯㩆.

When i browse to C:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\recent items these two shortcuts exist but try to point to files located on the desktop (c:\users\<username>\desktop\癤㩤⼯㩅 and c:\users\<username>\desktop\癤㩤⼯㩆) which do not exist. I couldn't open the shortcuts in recent items to see what the .lnk contained b/c windows kept trying to reference a non-existent source file.

I couldn't tell where these files were coming from so i booted up in linux and opened the two shortcuts in a hex editor and noticed that among other things they referenced dvd://e:\ (for 癤㩤⼯㩅.lnk) and dvd://f:\ (for 癤㩤⼯㩆.lnk). I recognized this as how VLC references things when you play a DVD movie from a DVD drive.

I booted back into windows to do some testing and verified that in recent items, 癤㩤⼯㩅.lnk is created whenever i play a dvd video from drive E:\ and 癤㩤⼯㩆.lnk is created whenever i play a dvd from drive F:\. I upgraded VLC from 1.1.5 to 1.1.9 and tried a couple different DVD's and this happened in all cases.

I'm curious if anyone knows what is causing this. I suspect it has to do with how Windows 7 manages it's own lists of recently/frequently accessed files for applications. I'm guessing that windows doesn't know how to interpret DVD://E:\ (or DVD://F:\) as a file when it queries VLC or when VLC opens the DVD.

Has anyone else seen this behavior or know any more detail?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try VLC 1.2 from Nightly Build of VLC

[Typecast]

Uninstalled 1.1.9 making sure to have it delete preferences and cache.

Downloaded vlc-1.2.0-git-20110321-1826-win32.exe

Seems to have resolved the behavior.

Merci beaucoup monsieur Kempf. (I hope google translate didn't own me too badly on that one)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You are welcome
vlc-1.2.0-git-20110430-something-win32.exe should even be better.

[Typecast]

Roger. Newer version works great too.

Misunderstood the naming system in use.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Great.