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Downloads: 9187	Submitted: Apr 12 2012
Description: A slight alteration to the BRILLIANT work by kempfjb with his/her AddSimilar extension, but with some post-sorting action within VLC and in the table processing. Do you have sorted folders for your media files? Do you want to have those files play in sequential order automatically? Simply play the first file of your choosing and select this extension - it will find similar files within that folder and automatically add them to the VLC playlist, then sort them by title. So, if you have VideoS01E01.avi through VideoS01E15.avi, it will just keep playing through the files in episode order. To install, download this lua file and place within your VideoLan application folder under VLC,lua,extensions folder. Then run a video file and select Add Similar With Sort from the View menu. Here is the link to kempfjb original Add Similar extension: http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/Add+similar+files+from+folder?content=140699 License: GPL

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by shywolf91 on: May 29 2012

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Does this work on mac? How would you use it on mac?

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by PooterTF on: May 29 2012

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Just tried it on my Mac and it doesn't seem to work properly. When activated, it opens a long blank window with nothing but an OK button that doesn't do anything. From everything I read, extension support for VLC on the Mac are still a developing thing.

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Can't handle Unicode

by Chematronix on: Jun 26 2012

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Doesn't works in Windows 7 either. Seems it has problems handling Unicode, besides not filtering non-video files:

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lua debug: [Add Similar] adding: D:/Mis Documentos/Educación/Cursos en línea/Algoritmos - Diseño y Análisis I/Lecciones/3 - 1 - O(n log n) Algorithm for Counting Inversions I (13 min).srt
lua debug: Path: file:///D:/Mis Documentos/Educación/Cursos en línea/Algoritmos - Diseño y Análisis I/Lecciones/3 - 1 - O(n log n) Algorithm for Counting Inversions I (13 min).srt
lua debug: Name: 3 - 1 - O(n log n) Algorithm for Counting Inversions I (13 min).srt
lua debug: [Add Similar] adding: D:/Mis Documentos/Educación/Cursos en línea/Algoritmos - Diseño y Análisis I/Lecciones/3 - 2 - O(n log n) Algorithm for Counting Inversions II (17 min).mp4

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "D:\Mis Documentos\Educaci??n\Cursos en l??nea\Algoritmos - Dise??o y An??lisis I\Lecciones\3 - 2 - O(n log n) Algorithm for Counting Inversions II (17 min).mp4". (%m)

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That's bizarre - I've been using it in Windows 7, both 32 and 64-bit. I use it nearly every day and never got an error.

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by Chematronix on: Jun 26 2012

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Does it works for you with non-ASCII characters (p.e. áéíóú) in the path?

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by Chematronix on: Jun 27 2012

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Fixed reencoding the path:
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new_item.path = "file:///".. vlc.strings.encode_uri_component(path..file)

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Didn't work on Ubuntu/Linux

by fiveoak on: Mar 17 2013

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The file path is messed up on Linux since it's missing an initial / character, so I changed line 103 to

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path = vlc.strings.decode_uri(string.sub(item:uri(), 8 , -(string.find(string.reverse(item:uri()), "/", 0, true))))

This replaces the 9 in the original code with an 8 (so it only strips the file:// not file:///) and it works.

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Does this work on mac? How would you use it on mac?

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Just tried it on my Mac and it doesn't seem to work properly. When activated, it opens a long blank window with nothing but an OK button that doesn't do anything. From everything I read, extension support for VLC on the Mac are still a developing thing.

Can't handle Unicode

Re: Can't handle Unicode

That's bizarre - I've been using it in Windows 7, both 32 and 64-bit. I use it nearly every day and never got an error.

Re: Re: Can't handle Unicode

Does it works for you with non-ASCII characters (p.e. áéíóú) in the path?

Re: Can't handle Unicode

Fixed reencoding the path:
Quote:

new_item.path = "file:///".. vlc.strings.encode_uri_component(path..file)

Didn't work on Ubuntu/Linux


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Does this work on mac? How would you use it on mac?

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Just tried it on my Mac and it doesn't seem to work properly. When activated, it opens a long blank window with nothing but an OK button that doesn't do anything. From everything I read, extension support for VLC on the Mac are still a developing thing.

Can't handle Unicode

Re: Can't handle Unicode

That's bizarre - I've been using it in Windows 7, both 32 and 64-bit. I use it nearly every day and never got an error.

Re: Re: Can't handle Unicode

Does it works for you with non-ASCII characters (p.e. áéíóú) in the path?

Re: Can't handle Unicode

Fixed reencoding the path: Quote: new_item.path = "file:///".. vlc.strings.encode_uri_component(path..file)

Didn't work on Ubuntu/Linux

Fixed reencoding the path:
Quote:

new_item.path = "file:///".. vlc.strings.encode_uri_component(path..file)