[mythtv-users] Radio Times XMLTV failing

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 01:00:57 UTC 2006


On 01/10/06, Neil Dunbar <neil.dunbar at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 October 2006 18:41, Simon Dyson wrote:
> > Since yesterday mythfilldatabase has been failing with:
> >
> > http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/1961.dat: Code point \u0000 is not a
> > valid character in XML at /usr/share/perl5/XMLTV.pm line 1754
> > 2006-10-01 18:36:05.620 ------------------ End of XMLTV output
> > ------------------
> > Error in 56030:21: unexpected end of file
> >
> > Anyone else got this?
>
> Yes - started on Friday, I think. My (ultra horrible) kludge was to make the
> following change to /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt:
>
>
> 351:                    s/&#8212;/--/g;
> 352:                    s/&#8230;/.../g;
> 353:>>ADD        s/\000\000/../g;
> 354:                   decode_entities $_;
>
> Seemed to fix it up. It's a Radio Times data corruption issue, but I guess
> with this workaround in place, it'll only be a week or so before it falls out
> of the schedules, and I can back the kludge out.

Seems to be the listing for Clerks on 6th October (2:30am) so
hopefully it'll be out of the data (if it's not corrected) by
Saturday.

Nick

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