ah right. I was thinking dos drive letters.
ok, I'll just hit the colons with a hammer and move on.
thanks for looking into it.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Brian Matherly <c...@brianmatherly.com>
wrote:
> I have a theory that your colons might be confusing the loader. The loader
> supports a feature were the service can be specified as part of the
> argument with a colon delimiter:
>
>
> https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/blob/master/src/modules/core/producer_loader.c#L45
>
> Perhaps your colon is getting picked up by the loader and making it split
> the path thinking that the first half is the service that should be used.
> If this is the case, then colons in the path name are just not going to be
> supported.
>
> ~Brian
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com>
> *To:* mlt-devel <mlt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 1, 2015 6:17 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Mlt-devel] relative paths in .mlt
>
> Um.. I can't figure out the pattern.
> other than: give carl file names with colons and watch carl get mad.
>
> If I remove the colon, everything works fine.
>
>
> carl@twist:~/temp$ ./t.sh
> + cd /home/carl/temp
> + tree
> .
> ├── buz
> │ └── foo.mlt
> ├── foo
> │ ├── bar:bar
> │ │ └── 00_00_00.dv
> │ └── baz
> └── t.sh
>
>
> + cat buz/foo.mlt
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <mlt LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" version="0.9.9" title="00_00_00.dv">
> <producer id="producer0" >
> <property name="resource">../foo/bar:bar/00_00_00.dv</property>
> </producer>
> </mlt>
>
>
> + melt buz/foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [producer_xml] failed to load producer "../foo/bar:bar/00_00_00.dv"
>
> + cd buz
> + melt foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [dv @ 0x1a8f9c0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
> + melt ./foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [dv @ 0xcd3960] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
> + melt ../buz/foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [dv @ 0x1a77960] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
> + cd ../foo
> + melt ../buz/foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [dv @ 0x15dc960] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
> + cd baz
> + melt ../../buz/foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [producer_xml] failed to load producer "../foo/bar:bar/00_00_00.dv"
>
> + cd ../bar:bar
> + melt ../../buz/foo.mlt -consumer xml
> [producer_xml] failed to load producer "../foo/bar:bar/00_00_00.dv"
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hmm.. doing testing with just a path to the media file, so no mlt file.
> maybe a different issue. I'll try a simple mlt file next.
>
> this errors:
> bar:bar/00_00_00.dv
>
> these do not:
> foo/bar:bar/00_00_00.dv
> ./bar:bar/00_00_00.dv
> ../bar:bar/00_00_00.dv
>
> carl@twist:~/temp$ tree foo/
> foo/
> ├── bar:bar
> │ └── 00_00_00.dv
> └── baz
>
> carl@twist:~/temp$ melt "foo/bar:bar/00_00_00.dv" -consumer xml >
> /dev/null
> [dv @ 0x2231e00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
> cd foo
>
> carl@twist:~/temp/foo$ melt "bar:bar/00_00_00.dv" -consumer xml >
> /dev/null
> Failed to load "bar:bar/00_00_00.dv"
>
> carl@twist:~/temp/foo$ melt "./bar:bar/00_00_00.dv" -consumer xml >
> /dev/null
> [dv @ 0xae1e00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
> cd baz
>
> carl@twist:~/temp/foo/baz$ melt "../bar:bar/00_00_00.dv" -consumer xml >
> /dev/null
> [dv @ 0xf2de00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com>
> wrote:
>
> It seems I can now use relitive paths in a .mlt file.
>
> <property name="resource">../dv/Stowe_Hall/2015-11-14/video swang
> 11:14/Clip1ATK3.mov</property>
>
> Is this expected to work?
>
> And should it work with odd chars in the name, like colons?
>
> some work, this does not:
>
> (veyepar)juser@cnt1:~$ melt
> Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/custom/Building_simple_Nodejs_microservices_using_Hapi_and_Redis.mlt
> -consumer xml
> ...
> [producer_xml] failed to load producer "../dv/Stowe_Hall/2015-11-14/video
> swang 11:14/Clip1ATK3.mov"
>
> but if I cd to the dir
>
> (veyepar)juser@cnt1:~$ cd Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/custom
> (veyepar)juser@cnt1:~/Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/custom$ melt
> ~/Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/custom/Building_simple_Nodejs_microservices_using_Hapi_and_Redis.mlt
> -consumer xml
>
> (no error)
>
> same with a sibling dir:
> (veyepar)juser@cnt1:~/Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/custom$ cd
> ../tmp
> (veyepar)juser@cnt1:~/Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/tmp$ melt
> ~/Videos/veyepar/nodevember/nodevember15/custom/Building_simple_Nodejs_microservices_using_Hapi_and_Redis.mlt
> -consumer xml
>
> (no error)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Carl K
>
>
>
>
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