upgraded to 0.2.0.3 hebrew EPG now backwards...not good ;-)

[zeltak]

Hi guys

I had MP working with hebrew EPG (yeah there are strange people that right backwards...). I did the 0.2.0.3 update, then configured MP alot and and only then noticed hebrew was now backwards with now apparent way of fixing it. I dont want to revert back to my old MP which i backed up so i dont loose all my later config's, yet i cant use the EPG and thus the PVR functions of MP. Is there any one out there that can help?

NOTE: I dont need hebrew menus, song titles etc...just the EPG to work properly

Thx alot in advance

Zeltak

[rtv]

backwards = correct direction?

I do not understand your issue exactly..

If you do not want hebrew chars reversed then just disable right-to-left language support in configuration.exe

[zeltak]

Thx for the answer RTV

Sorry for not explaining correctly, but even when i enable/disable right-to-left language support in configuration.exe, the hebrew starts from left to right (rather then righ to left as is supposed to). This makes using the EPG impossible. is it only the latest build problem? i think it worked in previous versions. any idea on what else i can do?

thx alot in advance

Zeltak

[rtv]

I guess the alternative font rendering which should speed up things broke RTL support - will check that..

[zeltak]

thx so much, i really appriciate it, at this stage i cant use MP :cry: im sure you know how hard that is :lol:

thx again

Zeltak

[orencha]

Thanks RTV!
You are the Man!

I'm using 0.2.0.4 and Hebrew seems to work quite OK! (There was indeed a problem with 0.2.0.3 that is now fixed). There is still a minor flaw in the text reversing function (sometimes numbers are reversed too, mostly hours such as 12:35 in the EPG) but it's still much better than before!!!

One major problem I still have, is with the ID3 grabbers (and other songs metadata, mostly FLAC which I use a lot): Hebrew names are ignored by the grabber for Artist and Album names (for some reason, it does NOT ignore the song name).
For some reason, only the first non-English album & artist name is grabbed, and the rest of the non-English songs incorrectly use those album & artist names.

Can this be fixed?
I would like to do it myself, but I never programmed in C#...

[rtv]

In Databases\Music\Database.cs are 4 lines like:

name2 = Regex.Replace(name2, @"[^a-z0-9]*", string.Empty);

just comment them, build current svn and take your self build database.dll for your MP installation.

I'll see if I can provide a fix for 0.2.0.5

[orencha]

Thanks again, rtv.
The problem does seem to be with the DB, because in the MP list, the names are first (with empty DB) displayed correctly, and only after refreshing the list, the names become incorrect (after the tags go to the DB).

However - it is not the same with FLAC tags (based on APE as much as know). In this case, English names are displayed (and grabbed to DB) correctly. However, non-English tags are totally ignored ("No track information available" is displayed in "now playing", and only the file name is displayed in list/playlist).

I think the above issue is related to the grabber itself, and not the DB.

P.S: is there a Tag grabber in MP for WAV files? I have lots of AC3 and DTS music files, and I can't find a way to add Tags to those files... Maybe if packed in a WAV or other format?

[rtv]

I know from another hebrew user with whom I was testing that the changes I pointed out _are_ necessary..

Please also test this and report back if it doesn't work:
New Music Tag Reader -- Testers needed