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chriss

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Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« on: December 16, 2008, 06:21:10 pm »
Hi,

just discovered a strange behavior. Files with umlauts or other special characters in the file name fail to play on my MDs but are playing fine on the core (where they are stored).

Error in DEClog:
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08      12/16/08 17:45:22.982           Received Message from 36 (.[36;1mXine Player / Wohnzimmer.[0m) to 33 (.[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter WZ / Wohnzimmer.[0m), type 1 id 809 Command:.[35;1mDisplay Alert.[0m, retry none, parameters: <0x7d079950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.982             Parameter 9(Text): File not found: /home/public/data/audio/Nils Landgren - Christmas With My Friends/10 - Nils Landgren - Gläns över sjö och strand.mp3 <0x7d079950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.982             Parameter 70(Tokens): xine_player_message <0x7d079950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.982             Parameter 182(Timeout): 10 <0x7d079950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.982             Parameter 251(Interruption): 0 <0x7d079950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.983           Received Message from 23 (.[36;1mXine Plug-in / Arbeitszimmer.[0m) to 36 (.[36;1mXine Player / Wohnzimmer.[0m), type 1 id 38 Command:.[35;1mStop Media.[0m, retry none, parameters: <0x5782e950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.983             Parameter 41(StreamID): 1001 <0x5782e950>
08      12/16/08 17:45:22.983             Parameter 42(MediaPosition):  <0x5782e950>
05      12/16/08 17:45:23.094           .[33;1mConnect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)).[0m <0x5a834950>

Any ideas why this is going wrong? I hope I don't have to rename all of those files...  :-\

Thanks,
/chriss

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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2008, 06:25:45 pm »
Hi Chriss,

you know that using spaces, special chars and umlauts in filenames is not the best practice?

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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2008, 07:24:50 pm »
Does the file exist under that exact name and path on your MD, or does it get mangled somehow?
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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2008, 09:29:55 am »
Hi chriss

I had to add
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iocharset=utf8 to the options of my /home mount on the MD to get such files to play.

/etc/fstab should contain a line somewhat like this:
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//192.168.0.50/home /home cifs iocharset=utf8,forcedirectio,credentials=/usr/pluto/var/sambaCredentials.secret 1 1
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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2008, 10:22:48 am »
hari,

you know that using spaces, special chars and umlauts in filenames is not the best practice?
Well, I think, if a file system and the applications support those characters, I should be able to use them without problems  ;D

zaerc,
Does the file exist under that exact name and path on your MD, or does it get mangled somehow?
thanks for this hint. This is exactly the problem. I was about to dig into this but sambuca already came up with a solution.

sambuca,
thank you very much. I will try that!

/chriss

EDIT: just verified the solution. works perfect :) thanks again. I'll post this to trac to have it included in 0810
« Last Edit: December 17, 2008, 10:42:09 am by chriss »

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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2008, 11:16:23 am »

you know that using spaces, special chars and umlauts in filenames is not the best practice?
Well, I think, if a file system and the applications support those characters, I should be able to use them without problems  ;D

well, maybe you are correct but I'm a bit more pessimistic about that. I've seen too many problems in my life regarding umlauts and whatnot. A bit funny that we still hit those things in 2008 :-)

@sambuca: good find!

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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2008, 07:46:06 pm »
Just on a side-note, we also still need to convert the DB itself to UTF-8 properly.
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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2009, 10:29:17 am »
Hi chriss

I had to add
Code: [Select]
iocharset=utf8 to the options of my /home mount on the MD to get such files to play.

/etc/fstab should contain a line somewhat like this:
Code: [Select]
//192.168.0.50/home /home cifs iocharset=utf8,forcedirectio,credentials=/usr/pluto/var/sambaCredentials.secret 1 1
br,
sambuca

Hi Sambuca

I am having the same problem. Could you explain all that so that a linux newby like me can just follow instructions step by step?

Would appreciate very much
thanks
Roberto

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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2009, 01:47:29 pm »
Hi roberto99

I'll try to give some more details, I'm cannot verify every detail as I'm not at my home:
You have to log in to the console of either the MD or the core. On the MD press ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a console. log in as root, no password should be required. type
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nano /etc/fstab If this editor (nano) is not installed, you will be told that. To install it type
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apt-get install nano.
Find the line and change it.
Ctrl+o to save, ctrl+x to exit.
You could try umount and then mount the /home share to apply the new settings but it might be as easy to just reboot.

hope this helps,
sambuca

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Re: Playing files with "special chars" (äöü) on MDs fails
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2009, 09:34:37 pm »
Ok, thanks, I'll try
greets
Roberto