What are the limitations on filenames when recording a stream to FMS2?

Graeme Bull - Jul 22, 2007

The question: What are the limitations on filenames when recording a stream to FMS2?

The answer:

I used to know where this was documented but can't find it anymore. I'll keep looking. Until then, my opinion has always been that the file name has to be URL safe. So no weird characters like question marks or colons etc. I thought I had heard a while back to not start a stream name with a number so I always start mine with a character, usually "stream_" or "userstream_", or word.

I'll look around a bit for a better answer but either way you can't go wrong with the above.

Keep in mind that Windows machines are case insensitive and Unix machines are. It's a good practice to make all your stream names lower case so you don't need to worry about that later if you ever move from Windows to Unix.