[Playlist] xspf and spaces in filenames

Lucas Gonze lgonze at panix.com
Sat Dec 8 20:11:45 UTC 2007


You were on Windows?  what platform?

Gerrit wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> here is the ticket
> 
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1394
> 
> it is a bit messy, don't feel
> Lucas Gonze wrote:
>> I can repro with my VLC 0.8.6a.  It doesn't work for either + or %20.
>>
>> Error message is --
>> main: no suitable access module for `http://test.kuilder.net/02 - And 
>> Then So Clear.mp3'
>>
>>
>> This is a straight up bug in VLC.  Nothing high concept about it, and 
>> having a nice clean repro like this will probably get it fixed in no 
>> time.
>>
>> Gerrit, if you file the bug report, folks here can add ourselves to 
>> the CC list so we can help with the follow up.
>>
>>
>> Gerrit wrote:
>>> Hi Ald,
>>>
>>> tried your suggestion, but no luck,  the xspf can be found here: 
>>> http://test.kuilder.net/new5.xspf, both files mentioned in the 
>>> playlist are on that server too, still can only play that Moonglow track
>>>
>>> this is the file:
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>>>
>>>> <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
>>>>     <title>Bicycles &amp; Tricycles</title>
>>>>     <creator>kermit the frog</creator>
>>>>     <date>2007-12-08T17:48:25+01:00</date>
>>>>     <trackList>
>>>>         <track>
>>>>             
>>>> <location>http://test.kuilder.net/02%20-%20And%20Then%20So%20Clear.mp3</location> 
>>>>
>>>>             <title>Prime Evil</title>
>>>>         </track>
>>>>
>>>> <track>
>>>>             <location>http://test.kuilder.net/Moonglow.mp3</location>
>>>>             <title>This one works</title>
>>>>         </track>
>>>> <track>
>>>> <location>http://test.kuilder.net/02%20-%20And%20Then%20So%20Clear.mp3</location> 
>>>>
>>>> <title>copied from url</title>
>>>> </track>
>>>>     </trackList>
>>>> </playlist>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Gerrit
>>>
>>> Alf Eaton wrote:
>>>> Gerrit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>> Lucas Gonze wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>> On the protocol level that this group addresses, a space in a URL
>>>>>> should be a + or a %20.  There shouldn't ever be spaces in a URL,
>>>>>> whether in M3U, HTML, or XSPF.
>>>>>>       
>>>>> Tried both %20 and + and still no luck. this is certainly not a 
>>>>> question
>>>>> about the XSPF Web player. I am trying to create my own playlists and
>>>>> play them remotely.  I have that working fine when I use m3u's.
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> If you can connect to the MP3 file in a web browser, try copying and
>>>> pasting the URL from the browser's address bar into your XSPF playlist.
>>>> That should give you an idea of what the correct URL should look like
>>>> (or maybe show that the problem's elsewhere).
>>>>
>>>> alf
>>>>
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