taken from http://vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=38968

diff -Nur noad.old/svdrpc.cpp noad.new/svdrpc.cpp
--- noad.old/svdrpc.cpp	2005-02-12 18:32:10.000000000 +0100
+++ noad.new/svdrpc.cpp	2005-09-13 12:52:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -250,13 +250,30 @@
 {
   char *baseName = NULL;
   char *cp = NULL;
-  char *vend = strchr(filename,'/');
-  if( vend )
+  char *fname = NULL;
+  char *vend = NULL;
+  
+  asprintf(&fname, "%s", filename);
+  if(fname[strlen(fname) - 1] == '/')
+    fname[strlen(fname) - 1] = '\0';
+  vend = strrchr(fname,'/');
+  if(vend) {
+    *vend = '\0';
+    vend = strrchr(fname,'/');
+  }
+  
+  if( vend && vend[1] == '_')
+  {
+    *vend = '\0';
+    vend = strrchr(fname,'/');
+  }
+
+  if( vend && strchr(vend+1, '/'))
     vend = strchr(vend+1,'/');
   if( vend )
-    asprintf(&baseName,"mesg %s %s",msg,vend+1);
+    asprintf(&baseName,"mesg %s '%s'",msg,vend+1);
   else
-    asprintf(&baseName,"mesg %s %s",msg, filename);
+    asprintf(&baseName,"mesg %s '%s'",msg, filename);
   if( baseName[strlen(baseName)-1] == '/' )
     baseName[strlen(baseName)-1] = '\0';
   vend = strrchr(baseName, '/');
@@ -268,6 +285,7 @@
 
   free(baseName);
   free(cp);
+  free(fname);
 }
 
 void noadStartMessage( const char *s)