[mythtv-users] MythNews - failed to retrieve news

Tue Mar 24 10:49:45 UTC 2009

B Gates wrote:
> Just updating the URL does not solve the problem (for me).
>
> I deselected all of the G4TV.com news feeds in the settings page.  I then went to the G4TV.com website and updated the news-sites.xml file.  Finally, I reselected the G4TV.com news feeds in the settings page.  I still get the "failed to retrieve news" error message.
>
> I looked in the .mythtv/MythNews/ folder and there is a file created for each of the news feeds.  Inside to file is nothing but garbage.  For example
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>g4tv.com</title><meta name="keywords" content="g4tv.com"><meta name="description" content="g4tv.com"><meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW"><meta name="revisit-after" content="10"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> </head>
> <frameset rows="100%,*" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">
> <frame src="http://searchportal.information.com?epl=00760065UlsNZ0sAVVETVRBeHhEVDlAGVQBbAwVQWAITWWddVVgABVMICkNXWwxRCw1WBAtWXFNSQxUbVA4M">
> </frameset>
> <noframes>
> <a href="http://searchportal.information.com?epl=00760065UlsNZ0sAVVETVRBeHhEVDlAGVQBbAwVQWAITWWddVVgABVMICkNXWwxRCw1WBAtWXFNSQxUbVA4M">Click here to go to g4tv.com</a>.
> </noframes>
> </html>
>
> If I do a wget of the xml (news feed file), 
>
> wget http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/podcasts/5/Attack_of_the_Show_Daily_Video_Podcast.xml
>
> I get a good copy of the xml file.  I then replace the corrupted xml file with the good copy from the wget command.  Now the news feeds show up a expected.  I can select the video and it will download and play without any problems.
>
>   

It's working OK in trunk with the new URLs. Any errors in the frontend log?

> I can go to the G4TV.com website and create an updated news-sites.xml for all of the current podcasts.  Is this needed?  Who would I send the file to?
>
> thanks
>   
There are a couple of feeds that have been removed so no longer work and
it looks like several new ones have been added so it would be nice to
get them updated, at the very least the ones that no longer work need to
be removed. If you don't do it someone else will have to :-)

The best thing to do is to create a ticket at
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/newticket and attach a patch file if you know
how to create one or the complete compressed news-sites.xml file and I
will make sure the new feeds get committed to both the fixes and trunk
branch so everyone benefits.

Paul H.