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Re: Opening movie with Unicode filename

Apologies for continuing to follow up my own postings, but I have had some success now using the URL data handler. The trick seems to be to include the volume name, i.e. file:///Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rolf/xyz.mov rather than file:///Users/rolf/xyz.mov, so all I need is a reliable way of determining the startup volume name from Java and I think I've cracked it!

-Rolf

Is there any documentation on what kind of DataRef the URLDataHandlerSubType can cope with? Presumably rtsp and http protocols, but does it support "file:" URLs? Assuming it does support the file: protocol, what form does it expect the URL to be in? The data ref is a null-terminated C string I believe, but with what character encoding? Is it UTF-8?

Is there any way (from Java) of opening a Movie where the filename contains accented or foreign language Unicode characters?

The standard method of opening a movie I use is

    QTFile qtf = new QTFile(...);
    OpenMovieFile openFile = OpenMovieFile.asRead(qtf);
    Movie movie = Movie.fromFile(openFile);

this throws a -43 fnfError if the filename contains foreign characters.

I have also tried
Movie movie = Movie.fromDataRef( new DataRef(qtf) );
and
Movie movie = Movie.fromDataRef( new DataRef("file://"+qtf.getPath() );
but both of these throw -2012 invalidDataRef. All three methods work for simple all-ASCII filenames.

Internally I believe the first method above still uses FSSpecs which is why it doesn't work, but surely this problem has been solved and QuickTime 7 gives me some way of opening these files??

-Rolf 

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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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