On 5/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Hendin</b> <<a href="mailto:neil.hendin@gmail.com">neil.hendin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all, this is my first post to this list, I have been using MythTV 0.20 (recently upgraded to 0.21_p13344) on my gentoo linux system for a few months, and wanted to troubleshoot why MythFlix was not working. I've been working on it for a day or so have a working theory I wanted to share with the community to see if anyone else sees this problem, or if I should file a bug in the Trac database.
<br><br>The symptoms were that the the NetFlix Top100 and Rental History lists would work, but the Queue browsing would not, giving a "Failed to Retrieve News" error. The debug logs would contain "failed to set content from xmlfile".
<br><br>Looking in the ~/.mythtv/MythFlix directory, I did see a correctly downloaded Queue file in xml format, so I am confident that the initial cookie setup is correct and the correct entries about the NetFlix Queues are added to the mysql database as specified in the instructions for MythFlix setup.
<br><br>Our family has a ton of movies (300+) in the netflix queue, some are just there as bookmarks, so I thought at first it was a length issue, but upon further troubleshooting, I noticed that we had a particular movie title that was causing the xml file not to be parsed due to a single character in the title. The movie is "Mambo Cafe" but the last letter has an accent over it in the <title> field of the xml. In the <description> section, this letter is represented by the HTML & # 233 ; (spaces added so that hopefully you can read it without the HTML getting substituted in your email client). I assume that in the <title> field this character is in UTF-8 encoding.
<br><br>If I had edit this one character to replace it with a standard, non accented "e" the queue file is parsed perfectly and all the movies show up in MythFlix. <br><br>The method I used was to copy the downloaded XML file to a temp one, edit it, save it to the Queue file and chmod a-w it, so at the next invocation, MythFlix would not be able to overwrite it and would read instead my edited version. I have a couple of short test cases, I can email if needed (2 copies of a very short queue, one with the offending character included and one without).
<br><br>I thought this might be similar to an issue I found in the Trac changeset:<br><br><a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/10063" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/10063
</a><br><br>This changeset applies to the _description_ field of the movie, not the title field, but it seems to be a similar problelm.
<br><br>Thanks for any suggestions you may have & MythTV is great. The only problems I have are this mythflix one and that mythweather needs an update due to the msnbc format chage (that's already in svn apparently).
<br><span class="sg"><br></span></blockquote></div>This certain sounds reasonable. Can you create a ticket for this problem at <a href="http://svn.mythtv.org">http://svn.mythtv.org</a> and assign it to me (kkuphal). I hopefully will have some time to take a look at it soon and get a fix in place. As you said, I think the solution is obvious but I just want to take a closer look.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Kevin<br>