[mythtv-users] frontend network control port

[Raymond Wagner]

On 12/11/2010 11:55, Richard Morton wrote:
> On 11 December 2010 16:45, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/11/2010 11:37, Richard Morton wrote:
>>> On 11 December 2010 16:30, John Pilkington<J.Pilk at tesco.net>    wrote:
>>>> On 11/12/10 16:20, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>>> On 12/11/2010 10:50, Richard Morton wrote:
>>>>>> On 11 December 2010 15:34, Richard Morton<richard.e.morton at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> (0.23 here still)
>>>>>>> If I play a file through mythvideo and then use the network control
>>>>>>> port to query location I get the following response
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # query location
>>>>>>> Playback Video 00:00:04 1x myth://Videos@192.168.0.2:6543/films/James
>>>>>>> Bond/17 GoldenEye.mkv 117 25
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I do help play :
>>>>>>> # help play
>>>>>>> <snip />
>>>>>>> play file FILENAME - Play FILENAME (FILENAME may be a file or a
>>>>>>> myth:// URL)
>>>>>>> <snip />
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but if I do:
>>>>>>> # play file myth://Videos@192.168.0.2:6543/films/James Bond/17
>>>>>>> GoldenEye.mkv
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> # play file "myth://Videos@192.168.0.2:6543/films/James Bond/17
>>>>>>> GoldenEye.mkv"
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> # play file myth://Videos@192.168.0.2:6543/films/James Bond/"17
>>>>>>> GoldenEye.mkv"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> it doesnt work...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> any ideas?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> R
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The above does try to initiate playback and indicates "Ok" through the
>>>>>> network control port, but it fails...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This does work however:
>>>>>> # query location
>>>>>> Playback Recorded 00:00:14 of 01:08:57 1x 11211 2010-12-11T08:53:00
>>>>>> 369 myth://192.168.0.2:6543/11211_20101211085300.mpg 25
>>>>>> # play file myth://192.168.0.2:6543/11211_20101211085300.mpg
>>>>>> OK
>>>>>   From the frontend logs, it seems to be ignoring the '@' character.
>>>> US/UK keyboard?
>>>>
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>>>> UK keyboard
>>> Raymond,
>>> ok, are you stating it is ignoring the @, or have you reproduced this?
>>> Have you reproduced this on 0.24? Should this be logged as a bug?
>> If you watch the frontend logs as you run that command, it reports receiving
>> the string minus the '@' character.
> ok, is this "as designed", or a bug?

This is as designed, and its a bug.  The '@' character is not on the 
list of 'approved characters', so it gets filtered out by the control 
server.