error in logs

[pBS]

i keep getting this in nrecord logs seemingly constantly..

2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] GetDurationMS() live: 2183656
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] In-progress duration is now: 2183656
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] READ: data read, about to send
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] READabout to send 169200 bytes, from offset 4810356000
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] READ: complete
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] CLIENT-READ: 169200 bytes from offset 4810525200 (file length: 4832479276)
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [DEBUG][35] RollingFile.Seek(4810525200)
2015-05-13 08:41:12.111 [ERROR][35] Unexpected rolling file seek error: System.Xml.XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 3, position 32.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEntityName()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEntityReference()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
at NShared.RollingFile.Seek(Int64 position, SeekOrigin origin)

also having problems with tuner not available msgs, even on server.. [tho usually on client pc] had 2 this morning on Mike & Mike on client and one today on Outside The Lines on server.

[pBS]

i found out the fix, my epg processor was saving as utf-8, which i had to do a long time ago for some reason, but now that throws error...
so i changed it back to original encoding, "ISO-8859-1" which eliminated the error...
now logs are much cleaner...hopefully solves some other probs too...
made logs very hard to read with all those error msgs in it..

not sure why this error started coming up, never saw these since i made epg processor several years ago, until recently they started showing up....

[pBS]

i take it back, problem still there, same error in logs again...WTF?
nothing has changed, just a new day...
is there some update to xml core services i need?
checked epg, still has new encoding, so i'm at a loss...

aha, looks like it only happens when show i'm watching has special chars in title...this time on "Mike & Mike" the "&" is apparently mucking things up bigtime...
leads to a freeze of pc client/server viewing...

any ideas? logs still relevant...looks exactly same now as it did....TONS of that error all over my logs..

checked epg and title has proper encoding... "Mike & Mike *"

epg coming from mc2xml...

[pBS]

hmmm, i see MS says these chars need escaping in xml:
" "
' '
< &lt;
> &gt;
& &amp;

tho i don't see any &quot; or &apos; in xml, just normal " and ', even in desc....
i expected those to be escaped...wtf?
but the only thing that is causing problem is the & in the titles and maybe subtitles..

In descriptions the & are escaped, but quotes and single quotes aren't...??

only difference i notice in my epg xml's is the originals have <!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd"> in it...do i need that to be added?

since it seems to happen on rolling file seeks, could it be the filename? Mike & Mike_20150514_09351200-2.ts

[pBS]

hmmm,the <!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd"> seems to be the missing part...
does anyone know how to add that line in by using an xslt transform?
it seems to be erased by normal processing...
any ideas appreciated...

[pBS]

fixed it by changing my xsl output line to

Code:

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" doctype-system="xmltv.dtd"/>

now no errors on shows with '&' in title...
yay!

[and boy was that hard to find out, haven't edited my xslt in a long time...gives me headache just looking at it..lol]

[sub]

I'm not sure I followed all that. So was there a bug in NextPVR, or was it a data problem?

[pBS]

it was my epg xml pre-processor http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post434477
It wasn't adding the doctype-system="xmltv.dtd" so all shows with "&" in title weren't processing right... xml looked ok, and no problem displaying..
strange that it would only show up on rolling file seeking, but it did...everything else had no problem with it...
but after update with the dtd, error is gone...
[it made seeks sometimes crash npvr...usually on client...and stuffed up logs bad.]