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HereSphere VR Video Player (Meta Quest)

VR video player with immersion-enhancing algorithms, streaming, and media library features · By HereSphere

Funscript loading bug

A topic by mrMightyM created Apr 28, 2023 Views: 1,074 Replies: 6
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I just got to try out the latest version, 0.9.2, and thank you, things are working great. I usually store all my funscripts in a seperate directory, and I specified the directory in the configuration. If the funscript have any special characters in the name like & or () it won't load them, but if the funscript is in the same directory they load fine. 

Also, will it check directories recursively? I haven't had a chance to try that yet.

Developer (1 edit)

The fallback directory is also used for videos streamed from websites, so the player has to remove invalid filename characters, which are /?:&\\*\"<>|%#@^

If you remove those characters, it should work. Some of these characters might be allowed by the Android file system, but UE4 is cross platform, so it just removes the characters that illegal for other operating systems as well. The player does not look in subdirectories for the scripts.

I suppose I could remove the invalid characters for streamed video titles only, and leave the original filename for videos that are played locally or with SMB.

Okay, that's what I assumed, I was just a little surprised that it did work if the video and funscript were in the same directory, and you are correct that if I remove the special characters it does work. 

I do very little streaming, so I store my videos in one directory and funscripts in order to keep things clean. I would definitely appreciate it if you could leave the original filenames for locally or SMB played files.  If it's not too much to ask, will it search that fallback directory recursively?

Developer

When you say recursively, are you meaning the app should search all subfolders as well? I don't think I'm going to add support for searching subdirectories. What's the reason for putting scripts in subfolders?

Yes, that is what I mean, on my PC I keep all my funscripts in a seperate directory with subfolders. Because they don't take up much space I copy the whole directory to my quest. It helps me to keep track of them, some which I am writing on still or ones that I've completed.

Developer

Searching all the subdirectories would have a negative performance impact. Each video's funscript is a single file. I don't see the benefit of having a bunch of subfolders with a single funscript in it. Just cut and paste the funscript into the top directory.

I don't have a single funscript in each directory, my layout is as follows:

\media\videos\A-M\*

\media\videos\N-Z\*

\media\funscripts\A-M\*

\media\funscripts\N-Z\*

Plus a couple more in that format, so it just keeps things a little cleaner.  It would be nice to just copy the media\funscripts folder to the quest and have it pull everything recursively from there. Not a big deal, just something on my wishlist. 

Thank you though for a great project!