What the @#$% is "â" & how do I get rid of it

Jaggy · 2012-12-10, 09:09 PM

I have been having problem with playback of "Donât Trust The B**** In Apartment 23" through the NMT's ever since the TV channel changed the listing from "Dont" to "Donât". If I get rid of the "â" & re-import into Recordings & it will play back fine.

I have been trying to get rid of the "â" (which isn't "'" BTW) using a small Replace program in my UpdateEPG.bat but even by copying the complete title from the xmltv file it still won't find it (& trying the standard "'" doesn't make it work either as you will see from the attached screenshots). I have also attached the actual section from my xmltv file.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I get rid of this @#$%^ annoying "â" so I don't have to keep doing manual manipulations so the Boss can view her program??

bgowland · 2012-12-10, 09:31 PM

Not sure if it will help but its hex value is 0x92 (decimal 146). If you can adjust your replace program to use that value, it may work.

Jaggy · 2012-12-10, 10:33 PM

Unfortunately it looks like the one I have been using for years only supports regular text... damn.... so I guess I'm now looking for recommendations on what program I can use in a batch file to get rid of that sodding thing?

bgowland · 2012-12-10, 10:41 PM

Just looking into it. I used a free application called XVI32 to look at your XML file. It has a scripting language which can be run from the command-line replacing with hex 0x27 should work.

mvallevand · 2012-12-10, 10:47 PM

Maybe you are still using GBPVR? If so try this in the MVP config.xml

<MVPUseShortFilenamesOnNMT>true</MVPUseShortFilenamesOnNMT>

Martin

bgowland · (This post was last modified: 2012-12-10, 11:06 PM by bgowland.)

Link to XVI32

Command-line:

Code:
xvi32 guide.xml /s=fix.xsc 92 "26 61 70 6F 73 3B"

EDIT: Just realised 0x27 is the apostrophe character and needs to be escaped. Adjusted the command-line above.

Script file attached.

Jaggy · 2012-12-11, 09:52 AM

Thanks guys I got busy today so I haven't had another chance to have another look at it.

Yes Martin you are correct this is for the GB-PVR server so I will try the config setting first (BTW what is the down side to having UseShortFilenames selected??)

mvallevand · 2012-12-11, 12:39 PM

Jaggy, the only real downside is for non ts/mpg files, you would likely be able to play external subtitles through the GB-PVR interface.

Martin

Jaggy · 2012-12-12, 01:44 AM

Big thanks Martin, that's working great now & as we play non ts/mpg files once in a "blue with pink spots moon" I don't see any down side for us.

Thanks also for spending the time on this for us Brian even though I didn't need to use it.......... at least at this stage.

bgowland · 2012-12-12, 02:14 AM

Jaggy Wrote:Thanks also for spending the time on this for us Brian even though I didn't need to use it.......... at least at this stage.

No problem. I've used XVI32 for a couple of years now so it didn't take long to work out the script stuff. Glad you've found a solution.

Cheers,
Brian