Chinese character files not showing up

[alui]

Shagrath,

I have some movies that are named in chinese characters. Most of them (but not all) don't show up on my PS3. The weird thing is a few of them do show up. I'm guessing that the ones that do show up use a different character encoding set from the ones that don't show, even though they are all chinese characters. I skimmed through the debug.log and found the following that might be helpful ...

[Thread-51] INFO 01:41:29.767 Forcing short path name on V:\TEST\????????.rmvb
[Thread-51] DEBUG 01:41:29.767 Search extension for V:\TEST\_WS0FM~M
..........
[Thread-92] INFO 01:41:41.217 File automatically added: ????????.rmvb
[Thread-92] INFO 01:41:41.569 Forcing short path name on V:\TEST\????????.rmvb
[Thread-92] DEBUG 01:41:41.569 Search extension for V:\TEST\_WS0FM~M

Seemed like the media server was not recognizing the filename, and when I changed the name to test.rmvb it showed up. BTW, I'm running the latest version 1.03.

Thanks

[shagrath]

I fixed a bug in filename charset encoding for the next version: I guess it should work better

[alui]

I fixed a bug in filename charset encoding for the next version: I guess it should work better

FYI, I just installed 1.04 and tested it on my files. They still are not showing up. Hoping that you can fix it in the next version ...

Thanks.

[shagrath]

post some non working filenames here... I'll try to test them

[alui]

post some non working filenames here... I'll try to test them

Turns out that it's not the filenames that were causing the problem. Rather, it's where they're stored. The problematic files were stored on a shared NAS drive. I did a test and copied one of these error files to an internal hard drive and an external usb drive, and both of them showed up and transcoded fine with no re-naming of the file. So, the problem is that the PS3 media server can't display chinese character files that are stored on a NAS drive. Not sure if there's an easy fix to this peculiar bug.

Thanks