Weird filename bug

So I have a lot of files and I have all the names organized. I set up Tversity to transcode video to my PS3 and it works great except for one thing. I'd say about 1 out of 15 files have the wrong filename, however, the filename displayed through Tversity on the PS3 is the original filename of the file. Some of these videos I changed the filename right after I finished downloading them MONTHS AGO. And yet Tversity still sees the old filename where on my PC the filename is displayed correctly.

This is not the worst of the bug, if I try to play any of the files with the wrong filenames from Tversity on the PS3 then the Tversity media server on my computer crashes. I doubt this is a problem with Tversity because the old filename shouldn't even exist. Somehow the old filename still exists on some level on my PC. Does anyone have any ideas on what is cause this and how to fix it?

I am on Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

Hi, JTik, and welcome to the forums.

Could the filename be embedded in the files you're playing?

johngalt said:

Hi, JTik, and welcome to the forums.

Could the filename be embedded in the files you're playing?

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Now that I look I notice this has only happened on a small portion of the mkv files. Most work fine, however some have this bug. Do you know of a way to check to see if it is embedded somehow?

btw: I have performed full chkdsk on all drives with no errors.

Not really, as that is a format I have *very* little experience. However, my reasoning is this - if those files have 'embedded' info like MP3s do (using the TAG features) then when you change the filename it may actually be generating an error as it is trying to play a file with a name that does not match....

I have looked around and I can't find any information on mkv tags anywhere.

Give me another reply tomorrow - I simply will not have the time tonight to research this but don't want to forget about this - so your reply will serve as a reminder for me to look this up again.

Ok a little update... I got to thinking that it is probably some sort of file system thing. I had already done a full chkdsk followed by a rebuild of the Tversity library and same thing was going on.

After a little research I decided to give something else a try. I disabled 8.3 filename creation by following these instructions

navigate to: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ FileSystem" and find the DWORD "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" and set its value to 1.
To disable 8.3 filenames for existing files you will need to open a command prompt and type "fsutil.exe behavior set disable8dot3 1".

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(I'm not really sure why Vista x64 supports 16-bit filenames to begin with, considering from what I understand 16-bit programs can't even run on it.)

I wasn't sure if the command line thing did that for all drives so I did it in each drive in the command prompt just to be sure. After all this I rebooted, I navigated (on my PC) to some of the different files I remembered were having the bug. Most of them looked exactly the same as the did before I disabled the 8.3 filenames. However, I'd say about 1 out of every 5 of these bugged files the name had changed, it had changed back to it's original name the same way it was displayed on the PS3 previously. I immediately got very exciting believing I had fixed the bug. I changed the names back on the files that got reverted to their original names, rebuilt the Tversity library again, and went to the PS3.

When I was viewing the filenames on the PS3, all the files that got reverted to original filenames after the tweak, and I had changed back to what they were supposed to be, they looked fine on the PS3, now matching the filename on the PC. However, all of the filenames that did not revert back to the original name on my PC, they did not match on the PS3, they still had the original name on the PS3. And worse yet, all these same files, both the reverted and non-reverted ones, still fail when attempting to play on the PS3 and still crash the media server on my PC if I try to play them from the PS3. And yet they still all play fine on the PC (both in WMP Classic and WMP 11).

OK, I never considered 8.3 names, but it makes sense. Have you now tried rebuilding the tversity app?

johngalt said:

OK, I never considered 8.3 names, but it makes sense. Have you now tried rebuilding the tversity app?

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Yes, mentioned it in the last post, the files that changed look fine now on the PS3, but still don't work, and the files that didn't change don't look fine on the PS3 still, and still don't work. So all the files that didn't work before still don't, but there was a change in the name on some of the files back to the original so I don't know what that means.