[bug]: errors when downloading files with special characters

[pokegamer5547]

Describe the bug So for some shows, like "star vs the forces of evil", when you try to download and use -x flag(happens without debug but just to show error), it says ffmpeg -loglevel error -stats -i https://b-g-eu-9.raffaellocdn.net:2223/v3-hls-playback/6457bc92757cf30f5a9a3784605527fd1e182004b9d2209d0ac054be53f5f9445896d2a220f7a1fb9bbcd8bf2a59a7af07c204be7ef1677ca8f5e9b7ead0943b0a2c42669f2d2364428d63b74591b12460e8dfd84fe52b58215bbaea6a08470f482a7a0999cbf7c3832b14979ed0f1fac67ee0ae2f4008842f3d404debe01afc5ebcad830c787a59138442354712132554e1b8026487e210c87d8873db44d460a88f176b554681d8917df4de1dcdab05/playlist.m3u8 -c copy /sdcard/Movies/Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Eps 1 Star Comes To Earth/Party With A Pony.mp4 "

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Try to download any random episode of "star vs the forces of evil"

Expected behavior It should download

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Additional context Its not filepath issue as i'm able to download other shows. It's only an issue with "star vs the forces of evil". I used debug flag and copied the ffmpeg and it seems having issue due to special characters in the output filename. Maybe removing special characters from filename can be helpful.

[lily-bit-0]

I just encountered the same issue of slash characters in episode titles messing up the download path, coincidentally also on Star vs. the Forces of Evil. As a temporary workaround you can change the download function to use yt-dlp as described in https://github.com/justchokingaround/lobster/wiki/Configuration#download-video-function. yt-dlp automatically creates missing directories, so it will create directories with parts of the episode name and then download it there instead of failing. But you’ll have to rename and move the downloaded files afterwards, so it’s still a little tedious.

[justchokingaround]

was this fixed in https://github.com/justchokingaround/lobster/commit/942ad9f466a1056fe48961826c1ff34da4beb976 ?

[pokegamer5547]

Well currently i'm having some issues with lobster running 4.3.0 (termux android) so a different issue came before i could test current one. It's first time i'm having this one, can we just use TMPDIR variable instead of specifying filepath? It ahould for both linux and unix.

I manged to solve it by editing the lobster script myself and changing paths.

But the star vs is still not able to download with yt-dlp

But ffmpeg is finally downloading now, just giving different issue unrelated to lobster i think.

[justchokingaround]

okay, here's a list of TODOs then:

• [ ] use TMPDIR instead of /tmp/ if it exists
• [ ] remove dots from filenames before downloading