[mythtv] Problem with titles passed to dvdauthor preventing DVD authoring

[Paul Harrison]

Scott Traurig wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:00:46 +0000
>> From: Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com>
>>
>> Scott Traurig wrote:
>>     
>>> In trying to use mytharchive to burn some recordings to DVD I ran into
>>> a showstopper.
>>>
>>> From the excerpt of mythburn.log below you can see that myth is not
>>> properly escaping the double hyphen in the title and thereby causing
>>> dvdauthor parsing of dvdauthor.xml to fail. This will obviously happen
>>> with any show title, subtitle, etc. that has a double hyphen in it,
>>> which a little reading of the guide will show is quite a common
>>> occurrence.
>>>
>>> If I knew how to work SQL I?d go in and manually edit the database to
>>> work around this but sadly I don?t know a damn thing about SQL
>>>
>>> This fails for 0.21 and 0.22.
>>>
>>> Comments, criticisms, work-arounds and help ? all are appreciated.
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Starting dvdauthor
>>> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
>>> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
>>> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8
>>> INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
>>> /home/mythtv/Temp/work/dvdauthor.xml:17: parser error : Comment not
>>> terminated
>>> <!--Survivor: Micronesia
>>>                 <titleset><!--Survivor: Micronesia -- Fans vs.
>>> Favorites--><menu
>>> ERR:  Error in parsing XML
>>> ************************************************************
>>> ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor. Result: 1
>>> ************************************************************
>>> Terminated
>>>       
>> You could just edit the title in MythArchive to remove the double hyphen
>> until it's fixed (on the second page where you choose which files to
>> include press 'MENU' then 'Edit Details'). The proper way to fix it
>> would be to just remove or replace the double hyphen when adding the
>> title to the comments in the dvdauthor.xml file created by the
>> mythburn.py script.
>>
>> Paul H.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the tip off to the non-obvious menu, Paul, that did the trick.
> However I agree about the "proper way". I wouldn't know how to make an
> official bug report so I'll leave it to you!
>
>   
The problem with double hyphens in titles should be fixed now :-)
> In an "appliance" like Myth there ought not to be any "hidden" UI methods
> with the possible exception of pressing menu while actually watching video.
> IMHO the way 'Edit Details' is accessed ought to be changed.
>
>   
It's common practice throughout Myth that pressing 'MENU' shows a popup 
menu. It is documented in MythArchive's wiki page as well.
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>   

Paul H.