[mythtv-commits] Ticket #8707: ASCII NULL (\0) in metadata can cause Live TV to fail and recordings to disappear from mythfrontend (was: EPG can fail if database contains \0)

[MythTV]

#8707: ASCII NULL (\0) in metadata can cause Live TV to fail and recordings to
disappear from mythfrontend
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 Reporter:  glemsom@…          |          Owner:  stuarta
     Type:  defect             |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  major              |      Milestone:  0.24.1
Component:  MythTV - EIT       |        Version:  0.23-fixes
 Severity:  medium             |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  EPG eit \0         |  Ticket locked:  0
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Changes (by kenni):

 * owner:  janne => stuarta


Comment:

 Besides failing Live TV; If a program containing the ASCII NUL character
 in its metadata gets recorded, the list of recordings on the frontend can
 result in "No recordings found" without any obvious error messages.
 Workaround:

 {{{
 UPDATE recorded SET title=REPLACE(title, '\0', '');
 UPDATE recorded SET subtitle=REPLACE(subtitle, '\0', '');
 UPDATE recorded SET description=REPLACE(description, '\0', '');
 }}}

 These chars should be stripped out from EIT before we pass them to the DB.

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Ticket URL: <http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8707#comment:5>
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