# Filename with spaces (character) didn't play in VOD via cupertino iOS?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 22, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100 "2011-03-22T00:43:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![edward\_jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@edward\_jacob](https://community.wowza.com/u/edward_jacob)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/1 "2011-03-22T00:43:38Z")

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is there a way that my filename of the video for example “Big Movie Part 25.mp4” can be play? We have Thousands of videos which has “space” character on the video filename and we cannot rename all due to it will affect also html and php files which needed to edit them.

Is there a way in the wowza setting to enable spaces character so the video can play ok via VOD cupertino iOS ?

or HTML5 video tag is the one that didnt treat this filename with spaces that cause not to play the video?

Also I try to use %20 to replace the space character but it didnt work also

thanks

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@Andrew\_Kennedy](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/2 "2011-03-22T03:07:29Z")

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the only thing I can think of is to use the AliasProvider interface to see if you can manipulate it as needed.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-the-imediastreamnamealiasprovider2-interface](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-the-imediastreamnamealiasprovider2-interface)

Shamrock

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/3 "2011-03-22T13:42:59Z")

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I tested iOS playback with file name containing space without problem. Did you quote the video src attribute?

```auto
<html>
<head>
  <title>Playlist</title>
</head>
<body>
<table><tr><td>
<video src="http://192.168.1.5:1935/vod/sample space.mp4/playlist.m3u8"</video>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

```

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/4 "2011-03-25T13:24:49Z")

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About space in name problem, not sure. It works for me. All browsers URLEncode, and Wowza does URLDecode.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@Andrew\_Kennedy](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/5 "2011-03-25T03:00:48Z")

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> hi thanks for the reply, question how can I apply the link you provided? TIA

you would need to use the Wowza IDE and build a module, however further reading suggests it should work.

Can you post the src link, change your server IP, so we can see it ?

Shamrock

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**Author:** ![edward\_jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@edward\_jacob](https://community.wowza.com/u/edward_jacob)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/6 "2011-03-22T03:26:24Z")

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hi thanks for the reply, question how can I apply the link you provided? TIA

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**Author:** ![edward\_jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@edward\_jacob](https://community.wowza.com/u/edward_jacob)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/filename-with-spaces-character-didnt-play-in-vod-via-cupertino-ios/35100/7 "2011-03-25T02:24:44Z")

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hi, I’m using the quote on the src, still not working, do you think there is a setting which can cause error on the filename when it has a space character? thanks