[DVDnav-discuss] libdvdnav / vlc filename parsing issue.

[Roger Pack]

Unfortunately, unless someone steps up to volunteer, this may be a "patch
welcome" thing [it's also a bit unclear if the problem lies in vlc or
dvdnav, I wonder which one will end up as the culprit...]


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Gundahar <Gundahar at chaven.com> wrote:

>
> Tried mplayer and similar issue.   It's the "ū" character in the path
> (doesn't have to be the file name itself but in the path is enough.
> Basically it seems that it screws up the opening/reading of the ISO
> image.
>
> Nothing logged that I can see.   Any ISO will act the same way if that
> character is present (and probably others as I doubt that "ū" was
> singled out so it's probably due to the fact that the filename/path
> string is not being handled for all UTF-8 characters.
>
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> On 2014-07-30 12:50, Roger Pack wrote:
> > So...any messages from the failure? does mplayer play it?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Gundahar <Gundahar at chaven.com
> > <mailto:Gundahar at chaven.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     I opened up a ticket on this over at videolan.org
> >     <http://videolan.org>  (#11836) which was
> >     promptly closed with only the statement that it was a libdvdnav
> problem.
> >
> >     Issue is the vlc/libdvdnav does not appear to be clean in dealing
> with
> >     file names.   If you have a single ISO such as:
> >
> >
> >     "Maoyu (2013)-D2.iso"
> >
> >     No problems to bring up the menu.
> >
> >
> >     Change the name to:
> >
> >     "Maoyū (2013)-D2.iso"
> >
> >     VLC will refuse to play the file.   Change it back and it works
> again.
> >      So it's purely up to the characters in the file name or path that
> borks
> >     the program.
> >
> >
> >
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