[vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names

["Manfred Schmidt-Voigt" <Manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kls@cadsoft.de [mailto:kls@cadsoft.de]On Behalf Of Klaus
> Schmidinger
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names
>
>
> Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: kls@cadsoft.de [mailto:kls@cadsoft.de]On Behalf Of Klaus
> > > Schmidinger
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:30 PM
> > > To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> > > Subject: [vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names
> > >
> > >
> > > Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > I started to write you this answer: (If I like to write prosa like "
> > > > %Was#5FSie#5Fschon#5Fimmer#5Fueber#5FSex#5Fwissen#5Fwollten "
> > > > (37,28%overhead)
> > >
> > > What's this all about??
> > > I was under the impression that the recording name
> > >
> > >   %Was Sie schon immer ueber Sex wissen wollten
> > >
> > > would be stored as
> > >
> > >   %Was_Sie_schon_immer_ueber_Sex_wissen_wollten
> > >
> > > (AFAIK WIndows _can_ handle the '_' character). So what's the
> deal with
> > > the '#5F'? Are you getting names like that? In that case that would be
> > > a bug in VDR.
> > >
> >
> > this is a "ls" from my /video directory:
> >
> > stereo:/video # ls
> > %%Bei#5FAnruf#5FMord
> channels.conf
> > %%Das#5Fsiebte#5FZeichen
> > channels.conf.neu
> > %%Die#5FGoetter#5Fmuessen#5Fverrueckt#5Fsein
> > channels.conf.old
> > %Bei#5FAnruf#5FMord
> channels.conf~
> > %Die#5FGoetter#5Fmuessen#5Fverrueckt#5Fsein
> commands.conf
> > %Spione#5Fwie#5Fwir                                          epg.data
> > %Was#5FSie#5Fschon#5Fimmer#5Fueber#5FSex#5Fwissen#5Fwollten
> keys-pc.conf
> > .                                                            lost+found
> > ..                                                           setup.conf
> > Die#5FGoetter#5Fmuessen#5Fverrueckt#5Fsein
> svdrphosts.conf
> > RMT-V102
> > svdrphosts.conf~
> > Was#5FSie#5Fschon#5Fimmer#5Fueber#5FSex#5Fwissen#5Fwollten   timers.conf
> > stereo:/video #
> >
> > Maybe you understand my problem better when you see this. I use
> also the AIO
> > patch 10.04, and VDR 1.0.0 so I don't know if this happens also
> with vanilla
> > VDR 1.0.1. But these are the facts. My system is Linux kernel 2.4.10 on
> > distri 7.3 SUSE. Maybe I have a problem with the language
> settings or font
> > settings or stty settings or settings whereever in this "correct"
> > filesystem. Or we can discuss now about RedHat or Debian or Mandrake or
> > whatelse is better...
>
> Ah, I can see that you find this annoying.
> However, VDR doesn't encode blanks as #5F (which actually is the
> '_' character).
> I assume that the recording names in your timers already have
> blanks mapped
> to underlines. VDR (with VFAT=1) uses a selected set of
> characters "as is",
> maps blanks to underlines and encodes other characters to #XX. So if the
> incoming name already contains underlines, these are encoded to #5F.
>
> How are you generating your timer entries? Are you using a tool that maps
> blanks to underlines?
>
> What I could do is change VDR so that it leaves underlines untouched when
> encoding file names to OS specific names, but then these would be
> mapped to
> blanks when going from OS specific back to file names. However, I
> guess this
> wouldn't bee much of a problem (and would actually be the same bahviour as
> without VFAT).
>
> Klaus
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>

I use epg2timers-0.6 and this writes the program names with underscores into
the timerfile. So this is the explanation for the inflation of #5F. Maybe
you can find a more convenient solution together with the author of
epg2timers once a day. I think I will convert back to a non-VFAT mode
because I don't use it any more. But because of the lack of a inline tool to
convert the filenames back from the VDR program directly I have left it
switched on. I hope it will be a lot cleaner with a nativ LINUX filesystem.
But thank you for your help with this.


Kind regards
Manfred



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