Re: Media and folder with special character

[Christophe dos Santos]

To add an information, the waveform window doesn't show this problem and play any mediafile located in a folder containing a special character.

I can imagine that the waveform is computed with another software than VLC (maybe Praat or audacity?).

Christophe

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:52:21 PM UTC+2, Christophe dos Santos wrote:

Hi Greg,

The same problem that I had with CLAN seems to be effective with Phon as well.

My user name has a special character in it : "ç"

When I try to play a media file in the media player with this media file located below my username folder (which means most of my files), the media player display "opening" for ever.
If I locate the media file above my username folder, like at the root of my hardrive D: , no problem, the media player play the media file.

I can imagine that at some point an address of the mediafile location is required but this address needs to have only ASCII characters in it in order to work proper.

I know that Leonid fixed this problem very quickly for Childes, I don't know if it will be very easy for Phon as well.

I know another person that had this problem with Phon but didn't know where it came from. In language using special characters like accent "é" or "è" it could be useful to be able to read address which contains special characters. Or maybe, if it is not done yet, you can just display an information about this problem when opening the mediaplayer.

What do you think?

Best,

Christophe

[Yvan Rose]

Hi Christophe,

Thanks for your clear description of the issue. Greg is currently on vacation but will get back to you about this soon after he returns. 

With best regards,

Yvan

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[Christophe dos Santos]

Hi Greg and happy new year,

I write you just to have some news about the issue I published when you were in vacation (sorry ;-).

See below,

Best,

Christophe

[Greg Hedlund]

Hello Christophe,

The issue comes from the encoding of special characters in the URL sent to VLC for playback.  I will look into changing how the URL is generated.

Cheers,

-Greg

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[Christophe dos Santos]

Thanks for your help. Hope it will work.

Christophe