[mythtv-users] UK xmltv grabber errors

[Mike Perkins]

The last three or so nights my MBE has hung during the mythfilldatabase run. The 
host is unresponsive to ssh, etc. Pressing the power button does cause an 
orderly shutdown, but then it reboots again, which it doesn't normally do.

I have played with tv_grab_uk_rt, and find that it can process a Freeview 
listing successfully. Trying it with a Virgin Cable-based set of xmlids causes 
it to hang, and because of the hang I am unable to precisely identify exactly 
where. All I can guess is that it might be due to a bad character sequence in 
one of the (US-imported) childrens' channels. (From past experience, bad 
characters in the stream can cause similar problems.)

I am running a stock Debian squeeze system, which has:

xmltv: v0.5.59
tv_grab_uk_rt: v1.331

$ mythbackend --version
Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
MythTV Version   : v0.24.2
MythTV Branch    :
Network Protocol : 63
Library API      : 0.24.20110505-1
QT Version       : 4.6.3
Options compiled in:
  linux release using_alsa using_jack using_oss using_pulse using_pulseoutput 
using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_directfb using_dvb 
using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv 
using_joystick_menu using_libfftw3 using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl_video 
using_opengl_vsync using_qtdbus using_qtwebkit using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr 
using_xv using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld using_xvmcw using_bindings_perl 
using_bindings_python using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vdpau 
using_ffmpeg_threads using_live using_mheg
$

I'd rather not roll my own xmltv program files, but I will if this is the only 
way to fix the problem.

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Mike Perkins