1.4.0 Pre Subtitle paths not respected 100% with UNC (1 Viewer)

[pellegj]

Just found what i suspect is kind of a bug.
I have all my media-files on a NAS and use UNC-paths to access them. I'm in the works of rearranging my library and found a problem with subtitle-paths, at least for me it's a problem. I had planned to put my subtitles in a different share from the movies. like the following:
\\SERVER\Movies\SUBFOLDER\SUBFOLDER\Moviefolder
\\SERVER\Subtitles
When I then input my subtitle path into MP config and play a movie it wont use any subtitle. However if i map \\SERVER\Subtitles to, lets say S:\ and change config in MP to reflect the mapped drive and play the movie it will find the subtitles and display them as supposed to.

 

[azzuro]

maybe @Sebastiii can help

 

[kiwijunglist]

Interesting idea, I've never thought of storing subtitles remotely from movies before. I could see numerous disadvantages, mainly that when you delete a movie it takes longer to delete the associated subtitle and some mediaplayers +/- mpextended won't pick up on the subtitle.

Q: Are there any additional advantages to doing it this way apart from having a slightly tidier media folder?

 

[pellegj]

Interesting idea, I've never thought of storing subtitles remotely from movies before. I could see numerous disadvantages, mainly that when you delete a movie it takes longer to delete the associated subtitle and some mediaplayers +/- mpextended won't pick up on the subtitle.

Q: Are there any additional advantages to doing it this way apart from having a slightly tidier media folder?

Yes. I can put in the movies, and anyone can put in the subs. This way i can have read access on the movie folder and read/write on the subs. Hence, I'm the only person that can delete movies. If someone by mistake deletes a subtitle is one thing, but a movie is another problem.

 

[Sebastiii]

maybe @Sebastiii can help

Maybe but not sure need to debug that lol

 

[pellegj]

maybe @Sebastiii can help

Maybe but not sure need to debug that lol

Anything else you need from me?

 

[Sebastiii]

Hi

I have found why, it's on C++ code, it replace '\\' to '/' but i'm not a c++ guru lol.
But i will try something

 

[pellegj]

Hi

I have found why, it's on C++ code, it replace '\\' to '/' but i'm not a c++ guru lol.
But i will try something

Just be careful. When such a replacement is done it's usually on very good grounds. At least for me in VB.

 

[pellegj]

I downloaded the source code, but i have no idea where to begin looking for the file where the replacement takes place.

 

[Sebastiii]

Look for : GFN.cpp in DirectShowFilters\mpc-hc_subs\src\subtitles

The culprit is here :

		for (size_t k = 0; k < paths.GetCount(); k++) {
			CString path = paths[k];
			path.Replace('\\', '/');

If i bypass : path.Replace('\\', '/'); <<<--- It's OK