[mythtv-users] Myth perl script not working since upgrade to 0.25

[David Farmer]

There are some user job scripts available
here<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:User_Job_Scripts> for
transcoding recordings and accessing the mythconverg database to give the
new files a human readable filename. Specifically, this
one<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Quality_Transcode> is
one I use. In it is the following:

#
============================================================================
# A commonly used SQL row selector:
my $whereChanAndStarttime = "WHERE chanid=$chanid AND
starttime='$starttime'";

#
============================================================================
# First, generate a new filename,
#

$query = $db->prepare("SELECT title FROM recorded $whereChanAndStarttime;");
$query->execute || Die "Unable to query recorded table";
$showtitle = $query->fetchrow_array;
$query->finish;

$query = $db->prepare("SELECT subtitle FROM recorded
$whereChanAndStarttime;");
$query->execute || Die "Unable to query recorded table";
$episodetitle = $query->fetchrow_array;
$query->finish;

if ( $episodetitle ne "" )
{
  $seasonnumber = "";
  $episodenumber = "";
  $xmlstring = `/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -N
"$showtitle" "$episodetitle"`;
  if ( $xmlstring ne "" ) {
    $episodedetails =$xmlparser->XMLin($xmlstring);
    $seasonnumber = $episodedetails->{item}->{season};
    $episodenumber = $episodedetails->{item}->{episode};
  }
}
#
============================================================================

This had no issues in Myth 0.24 but since upgrading to 0.25 it fails to
execute the "$episodedetails =$xmlparser->XMLin($xmlstring);" line
for things such as TV series, documentaries, reality TV. It does however
still work fine for movies. The error being produced is the following:

"Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Simple.pm line 939.
File does not exist:
The modules tvdb_api.py (v1.0.0 or greater), tvdb_ui.py, tvdb_exceptions.py
and cache.py.
They should have been installed along with the MythTV python bindings.
Error:(No module named lxml.etree)

 at /home/david/scripts/x264_transcode_high.pl line 287"

I'm wondering if anyone can help with a solution to this. I really like
this script and would like to continue using it for both movies and TV
series.
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