Media files now shown on smb mount when unicode symbol in filename
I ran into an issue where I could only see few of the files I have in a media folder on an SMB server when using the Android app (v3.5.3)
I did some digging into this issue and I believe I found the cause, so hopefully this will help in solving the issue:
Let's say that I have 5 files on the mount:
- Vacation video 1 - Fun.mp4
- Vacation video 2 - More fun
❤ ️.mp4 - Vacation video 3 -
😱 😱 😱 .mp4 - Vacation video 4 - Sailing.mp4
- Vacation video 5 - Beach.mp4
In the app I only see two files:
- Vacation video 4 - Sailing.mp4
- Vacation video 2 - More fun
❤ ️.mp4
Steps taken to analyze
I downloaded libsmb2 v4.0.0 and built the example app smb2-ls-sync and used it to access the server. It shows all the files but in the following order:
- Vacation video 5 - Beach.mp4
- Vacation video 1 - Fun.mp4
- Vacation video 3 -
😱 😱 😱 .mp4 - Vacation video 4 - Sailing.mp4
- Vacation video 2 - More fun
❤ ️.mp4
It seems that VLC does not like the "libsmb2 returns them). Note that the video 2 also has an unicode symbol in the name and it is working fine.
I verified that this is the cause by moving video 3 out from the folder and VLC is able to show all files other files now.