Maybe metadata XML stored incorrectly?

[GoodGuys]

Hi Sub,

I've been trying to get sixgun's MpegImport utility to properly recognize the metadata stored in my NTFS when it imports stuff...

If you recall we had a problem with the filenames in Hebrew because the resulting XML didn't have the correct header with windows-1255 charset.

However, all of the metadata that we read from the disk is all converted to ??????s. And I noticed it has no header line at all. I am wondering if this is maybe the source of the problem.

Is there any chance that GBPVR writes the metadata wihtout the header and so it gets converted to ???s ?

Thanks,

GGF

[sub]

Yes, right you are. I've added the UTF-8 header for the next release.

[sixgun]

Yes, right you are. I've added the UTF-8 header for the next release.

I have been working on getting MpegImport to work with any characterset (with the help of GoodGuys).

I actually use

Code:

Encoding.GetEncoding(0);

and that seems to get the text encoding for the local system.

Regards.

[GoodGuys]

Thanks Sub!

Any kludge for current release, maybe?

GGF

[sub]

Any kludge for current release, maybe?

Other than you manually opening the metadata and adding the header...no.

[GoodGuys]

Other than you manually opening the metadata and adding the header...no.

Does the lack of header mean that the Hebrew characters have been converted to question-marks prior to being written into the metadata, or is the Hebrew in there somewhere and I need some special access method to get to it and manually add the header?

Thanks,

GGF

[sub]

I would have assumed they were written ok, but unable to read as an XML document because the system default encoding type. Of course this is only a guess, and certainly not something I've tried.

If you cant read it in notepad, then its been written incorrectly.

[GoodGuys]

Hmmm... Would you know how I might be able to read them properly, or how to append the header in-place (i.e. without reading - prefixing - writing)?

Thanks,

GGF

[GoodGuys]

One more question - how does GBPVR handle multiple <sub-title> elements in the XML file?

Thanks,
GGF

[sub]

(i.e. without reading - prefixing - writing)?

You'd probably have to do that.

how does GBPVR handle multiple <sub-title> elements in the XML file?

Do you mean in an XMLTV file? If there are multiple, I think it'll probably only keep the last one.