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Yo
29th July 2004, 22:10
Recently I ran into a problem with encoding a movie that had as the third character ú, the letter u with a forward accent. (In the Spanish word "azúcar"). I couldn't figure out which program had the problem with this character, whether AutoGK, or one of its sub-programs-vdubmod, etc.

I wrote about this in detail in the thread entitled "Exception--Open AVI Failed". I think, since it took a couple days for me to respond to the request to post my logfile, people probably stopped looking at that thread.

If you think you might have any insight into the problem of accented characters in filenames, any workarounds, etc., please look at that other thread, and respond either here or there. Thank you.:)

Codesmith
2nd August 2004, 07:11
Just call name the outputfile something like movie.avi.

When the encoding is finished rename the avi and any external subs to whatever you desire.

I usually just cut and paste from the imdb name as I am clueless how to type special characters, heh.

len0x
2nd August 2004, 11:11
I see... that all makes sense now. AVIFileOpen function of WinAPI doesn't like non-english characters. Not sure if its fixable or not (may be special format has to be supplied, but I failed to find it yet)

len0x
2nd August 2004, 18:26
An update. Actually I think I managed to solve the problem of non-english characters for comp test. Should be in the next version.