[mythtv-users] MythArchive in 0.27: title of iso image is bad

[Paul Harrison]

On 11/09/13 12:06, John Pilkington wrote:
> I've just been trying out MythArchive in Richard Shaw's latest build, 
> which includes a batch of very recent patches by PaulH.  Many thanks 
> to both.  The prettyxml is a great improvement for diagnostics, and I 
> see an animated thumbnail fix has just gone in.
>
> A new bug has crept in with the iso title.  I don't really make use of 
> that, but it's now appearing (when played with vlc) as a line of 
> underscores. Here's the command being used, from the progress log of 
> my (patched) version of mythburn.py.  The unpatched script has the 
> same problem.
>
> 00:00:15 Command is ionice -c3 "mkisofs" -dvd-video  -V "
> _______" -o "/mnt/f10store/myth/arctmp/isos/mythburn.iso" 
> "/home/John/arctmp/work/dvd"
>
> I thought that this might be a product of the shift to  utf-8 and this 
> snippet:
>
>             # replace all non-ascii-characters
>             title.encode('ascii', 'replace').decode('ascii', 'replace')
>             title.strip()
>
> but I commented out the 'title.encode' line and still see the same.  I 
> can play around a bit more but hints would be welcome.
>
> John P

Everything looks OK here. What was the title of the show?

There is some code to replace non alphanumeric characters with '_' maybe 
that is what you are seeing but that would have to be one strange 
programme title. You could stick a few 'print title' lines around where 
the title is processed to see how it ends up being what it is.

Paul H.