[DVDnav-discuss] [PATCH] Filenames in Unicode decoding issue

[Honza Horak]

On 09/14/2012 08:37 PM, Erik Hovland wrote:
>> there's an issue in libdvdread, triggered by DVDs with Unicode filenames
>> (example of such DVD is a movie Thor).
>>
>> Original bug report is available here:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813977
>>
>> There is also an enhanced Unicodedecode function on Ubuntu forum, which I
>> consider better, than the current implementation is (see the patch
>> attached):
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11254706
>>
>> Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce this issue, since I don't have such
>> DVD, so I cannot verify if the patch fixes the issue.
>
> Sorry to respond so late. According to the logs this issue should have
> been fixed in version 4.2.0 by a patch John Stebbins submitted. The
> link you give to the redhat bug confuses me a little bit, it seems totem
> works but xine didn't. Not only that but the original reporter said that the
> patch didn't help.

It is possible he was trying older xine-lib with bundled libdvdread.

> I am reluctant to apply the ubuntu patch unless it can be shown that
> John's patch doesn't fix the issue in all cases.

I asked the reporter to test again with xine-lib without bundled 
libdvdread and will provide the feedback.

Honza