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0.3.2 in -testing. Please help test and push it to extras. Please use the latest server (git if possible) with clean database (if possible) to test it. I can then try to fix server issues if people start giving proper reports unlike I've seen lately.

It works really well except for folders with umlauts (using Windows 7) like "Persönlich".
Is there no chance to fix this?

It needs to be fixed in Ruby and there's no easy way to fix it properly in Knots. 1.9.2 should fix these charset issues on Windows but I don't know how far off it is. And once it's out I need to fix Knots to work with it and release a new server package with 1.9.2 and all the required gems etc. I'll test if I can get that going with a 1.9.2 developer version, but it's gonna need time and work.

So in the meantime your only chance is to either rename those umlauts to ascii characters, move your media to folders that don't have such characters or use Linux/OS X that have saner filesystems.

Doesn't it work with 1.9.1 which is already available as stable?

help me with something if u can plz i update collection and then went to the client then i went to browse by path and i can see all the folders but when i press one to get a video it said "no results"...

Browse by path is currently broken, use the normal browse mode for now.

Seems like VLC won't accept a custom telnet password in a custom build, sadly I need this build because it fixes my MKV/h264 seeking issues.

How do I change the password that knots uses to login to VLC?

LE: I was wrong about VLC not accepting a custom password.

Seems like they changed the name of the interface from 'old' to 'oldtelnet'.

Changing line 225 from lib\vlc.rb, text "old" to "oldtelnet" fixed my problem.

What is the symptom of this error? Does it actually say password is incorrect? VLC 1.1 introduced a new telnet interface and old one was renamed to oldtelnet. Maybe Knots doesn't detect this (it doesn't on Windows at least) and uses the wrong telnet interface. If your custom VLC is 1.1 or newer, try changing the "Uses VLC 1.1 or newer" setting to true and restart the server.

EDIT: You need to edit lib/vlc.rb and change two lines if you want to change the password:

line 225: cmd = "...--telnet-password=knots"
line 327: cmdlist.insert(0, "knots")

Change both instances of knots.

EDIT2: I haven't tested VLC 1.1 properly yet and it's possible, that the new h264 profiles don't work with it so you may need to create a custom profile for now.

ukki: I tried a gstreamer profile and it doesn't work, mplayer based profile does.

Attached is a knots.log capturing what happens after I launch knots and try to play a video using the gstreamer profile.

Looks ok server side so gstreamer doesn't seem to like the format. You could open the stream from command line if you have gstreamer0.10-tools installed on n900 and see if you can find any clue:

But I think the problem is in the x264 settings (Video Encoder line)