[mythtv-users] mythvideo improvement / feature request

[Joachim Gehweiler]

Xavier Hervy schrieb:
> Joachim Gehweiler wrote:
[...]
>> Please show the mythvideo plot descriptions in a textarea with 
>> scrollbars instead of cutting the rest off.
> 
> Same Idea but I don't how to scroll the plot, up/down arrows are already 
> use to change the parental level.

I'd suggest to use the numbers 1-4 for parental level and the up/down 
arrays for scrolling (because this would be quite intuitiv for use with 
a remote)

[ another possibility would be to use the PageUp/PageDown keys (and 
leave the keys for parental level as they are), but I don't think this 
is a good idea, because the PageUp/PageDown keys are mapped to the 
prev/skip buttons on the remote (and in fact, they are mapped the other 
way round you would expect...) ]


>> I just noticed that mythvideo seems to use iso-8859-1 whereas mythtv 
>> makes use of unicode -- at least german characters äöüß get not 
>> translated into unicode when the video manager automatically extracts 
>> the title from the filename. As a result, mythweb only displays a 
>> questionmark for all these characters.
> 
> I don't have any trouble with filename (éà...). but my script which grab 
> movie information return bad characters in mythvideo but work pretty 
> well when i execute in a xterm or a console. I don't know how to resolve 
> that or if this trouble appear only in my system.

I don't have any trouble myself inside mythvideo, but it doesn't work in 
mythweb.
When I looked into the MySQL database, I just wondered why the data in 
the 'title' column is not stored as unicode (in unicode characters like 
ä, ö, ü, ß or é, è, ê would look like Ãœ, ä, and so on).

If you like, you can send me your script -- I'll try it on my system to 
see if the same trouble occurs or not.

Best,
     Joachim