[mythtv-users] Radio Times XMLTV failing

[Leigh]

stan at stanandliz.net wrote:

>Thanks for this solution - I was wondering what the hell was going on with
>mythtfilldatabase!
>
>Stephen
>
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>>On Sunday 01 October 2006 18:41, Simon Dyson wrote:
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>>>Since yesterday mythfilldatabase has been failing with:
>>>
>>>http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/1961.dat: Code point \u0000 is not a
>>>valid character in XML at /usr/share/perl5/XMLTV.pm line 1754
>>>2006-10-01 18:36:05.620 ------------------ End of XMLTV output
>>>------------------
>>>Error in 56030:21: unexpected end of file
>>>
>>>Anyone else got this?
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>>>
>>Yes - started on Friday, I think. My (ultra horrible) kludge was to make
>>the
>>following change to /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt:
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>>351:                    s/—/--/g;
>>352:                    s/…/.../g;
>>353:>>ADD        s/\000\000/../g;
>>354:                   decode_entities $_;
>>
>>Seemed to fix it up. It's a Radio Times data corruption issue, but I guess
>>with this workaround in place, it'll only be a week or so before it falls
>>out
>>of the schedules, and I can back the kludge out.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Neil
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Spotted that last night when I went to update the guide (myth box isn't 
currently permanently connected - needs "long cable trailing down the 
stairs trip hazzard" TM at the moment.. !)
Thanks for the fix, !