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[Bug 176854] Re: Me-tv should remove special characters from recording filenames

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From: "Robert D." <robert_j_dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:56:38 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 176854 <176854@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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G'Day,

Not sure if this should be created as a new bug, but in V0.6.2 this issue seems to have resurfaced.
I am sharing my recordings using Samba, to an XP machine and any filename with a colon ':' become mangled when viewed from the XP box.  Manually removing the colon makes the filename sensible again.  It seems to be a Samba (SMB) issue, as the filename is also mangled when the share is mounted from Ubuntu (using Samba).

Details:

Ubuntu 8.04
V0.6.2 compiled from http://edge.launchpad.net/me-tv/stable/0.6/+download/me-tv-0.6.2.tar.gz

I think V0.6.0 did this also.

Regards,

Robert.

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Me-tv should remove special characters from recording filenames
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Bug description:
Me-TV should be removing special characters from the filenames it uses to save recorded streams. On some filesystems, such as FAT32, which many external hdds are formatted in, me-tv will crash if it tries to record a program with a title containing characters such as ':' or '?' .