Odd Renaming of Video Files

[thorax2015 0]

Hi all. First post here.

 

First of all. Thank you to anyone and everyone who has contributed to Emby. Its awesome! Seriously.

 

 

I do have a minor issue right now. Very minor. I just find it a bit odd.

 

Basically some films physical files are being renamed automatically and I see no reason why.

"Tron: Legacy (2010)" for example, has been renamed to "TQ0990~V.AVI"

It still appears with the correct title in the Emby library however.

 

As I said. Its a minor issue. But I could do without it renaming stuff on its own. I use a shared folder to view the files as well as using Emby.

 

Looking at the other files it has renamed, there seems to be a pattern. It's renaming files that have a ":" character.

 

Is there any way to prevent this? Or should I simply rename the files, omitting the character?

 

 

Cheers all! Thanks for any help or suggestions!

 

Keep up the great work!

[Luke 42077]

Hi, Emby doesn't rename files. The only thing it will do is react to file names being changed by something else. good luck in tracking it down.

[thorax2015 0]

Huh.... Don't really have anything else on the system. Can't think of anything that would be renaming them. Unless they aren't supported by the filesystem or something.

 

Literally all I've done to the system is install Manjaro xfce, update, install Emby...

 

Odd. I will indeed look into it.

 

Cheers!

 

 

EDIT: Just checked the files in thunar on the system itself as opposed to from the shared folder on other computers. And the files are named correctly. The names just seem to get scrambled when viewed from other machines on a samba share.

 

Very peculiar.

 

So, For films that have a : character. Is there any need to use that? Will the film still be recognised if I omit it?

 

Thanks again!

Edited September 19, 2016 by thorax2015

[Luke 42077]

It should be OK without it. Does that help?

[dcrdev 255]

It's not emby it's samba trying to be helpful by translating Unix filenames to Windows compatible ones.

 

In the global section of your samba configuration file (probably /etc/samba/smb.conf) add: " mangled names = no"

 

Restart samba (probably sudo systemctl restart smbd)

 

Only issue is that if your using a colon character within a file/directory name, it won't be accessible via Windows clients; you'll just get an error thrown back.

Edited September 19, 2016 by dcrdev