[mythtv-users] MythFlix problem with odd characters in the movie title.

[Kevin Kuphal]

On 5/27/07, Neil Hendin <neil.hendin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> I thought this might be similar to an issue I found in the Trac changeset:
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/10063
>
> This changeset applies to the _description_ field of the movie, not the
> title field, but it seems to be  a similar problelm.
>
> 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).
>
> This certain sounds reasonable.  Can you create a ticket for this problem
at http://svn.mythtv.org 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.

Thanks,
Kevin
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