Title property is in Chinese language about vlc.dotnet HOT 8 CLOSED

It's not Chinese language,it‘s gibberish.

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Thanks for the clarification :)
Then, how to get the correct Title, not gibberish?

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I think it's just the Character coding problem,why not try read the file name in your own code,try utf-8,unicode etc?

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Thanks again,
Is ok with files, but I need to play YouTube media or RTSP - online video. There this property, title, is very useful.

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Someone should go over the source code, to make sure all native text is converted to ANSI. That's the problem...

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Change line 16 in VlcManager.GetMediaMeta.cs (Core.Interops project) to this: return Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(ptr);

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Thanks! Solve the problem. :)

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You never check with different languages :(
YouTube returns strings in UTF-8 therefore marshal must be done with utf-8 encoding.
There is no PtrToStringUTF8 so

//return Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi( ptr );
int len = 0;
while ( Marshal.ReadByte( ptr , len ) != 0 ) ++len;
byte[] buffer = new byte[len];
Marshal.Copy( ptr , buffer , 0 , buffer.Length );
return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString( buffer );

btw,
var media = myControl.MediaPlayer.GetCurrentMedia();
var utf8 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(media.Title));
could not get correct string. Issue #178 has been solved?(>_<)

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