[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend 0.28 - Can't fetch meta-data images when programme name has a '%' (percentage sign) in it.

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Kingsley,

Friday, August 19, 2016, 1:33:00 AM, you wrote:

> On 18/08/16 18:47, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like Mythfrontend can't fetch programme meta-data images when the
>>> metadata name has a percentage sign in it.  it seems like the informational
>>> data is retrieved OK, just not the artwork.
>>>
>>> For example, the show named "Ichigo 100%"  (AKA: "Strawberry 100%", "いちご
>>> 100%").
>> Did some quick testing and I do not think your errors have to do with
>> "%". Try on the command-line:
>> ttvdb.py -D "ichigo 100%" 1 1
>> ttvdb.py -F "ichigo 100%"
>> ttvdb.py -P "ichigo 100%"
>>
>> All metadata is named like: 80759-1.jpg.
>>
>> I have not tried opening those urls, but they might just be empty on
>> the ttvdb side.
>>
>> (ttvdb.py is located somewhere like:
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television)

> I wonder if there is also corrupt locally cached copy that might be giving
> it problems.

> Is there a way to find out what the local filename would be ?

> -kt

You have several Cache directories in ~/.mythtv. If I look at my
backend (named GentooServer) I see one
Cache-metadatalookup-GentooServer. You can try clearing the one on
your backend. To be save you should first shut-down mythbackend.


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