[no Bug] [confirm] 1.3Alpha - Genremap can crash Mediaportal (1 Viewer)

[Jelmo]

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.3

Description
It looks like, that not all characters are possible in the genremap section of Mediaportal.xml

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit Mediaportal.xml to the following
<section name="genremap">
<entry name="6">Fußball</entry>
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does not work
Change to
<section name="genremap">
<entry name="6">Fussball</entry>
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does work
So the letter "ß" is the showstopper here. The problem is that the most german EPG providers will say Fußball instead of Fussball. So Colored EPG will not work in this case.
If needed i can submit LogFile

 

[Holzi]

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.3

Description
It looks like, that not all characters are possible in the genremap section of Mediaportal.xml

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit Mediaportal.xml to the following
<section name="genremap">
<entry name="6">Fußball</entry>
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does not work
Change to
<section name="genremap">
<entry name="6">Fussball</entry>
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does work
So the letter "ß" is the showstopper here. The problem is that the most german EPG providers will say Fußball instead of Fussball. So Colored EPG will not work in this case.
If needed i can submit LogFile

Fußball works for me. You just have to insert ß in xml language

Try to insert: <entry name="6">Fußball</entry> instead of <entry name="6">Fußball</entry>

 

[Jelmo]

Will try it out ...

 

[ajp8164]

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.3

Description
It looks like, that not all characters are possible in the genremap section of Mediaportal.xml

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit Mediaportal.xml to the following
&lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;
&lt;entry name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;Fußball&lt;/entry&gt;
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does not work
Change to
&lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;
&lt;entry name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;Fussball&lt;/entry&gt;
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does work
So the letter &quot;ß&quot; is the showstopper here. The problem is that the most german EPG providers will say Fußball instead of Fussball. So Colored EPG will not work in this case.
If needed i can submit LogFile

Please post logs so we can see the cause.
You should not have to be editing your xml files to use this feature.
Thanks!

 

[Vasilich]

holzi,
it seems that you don't use proper encoding while editing this file. you should set it to utf8.

 

[Jelmo]

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.3

Description
It looks like, that not all characters are possible in the genremap section of Mediaportal.xml

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit Mediaportal.xml to the following
&lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;
&lt;entry name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;Fußball&lt;/entry&gt;
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does not work
Change to
&lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;
&lt;entry name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;Fussball&lt;/entry&gt;
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does work
So the letter &quot;ß&quot; is the showstopper here. The problem is that the most german EPG providers will say Fußball instead of Fussball. So Colored EPG will not work in this case.
If needed i can submit LogFile

Please post logs so we can see the cause.
You should not have to be editing your xml files to use this feature.
Thanks!

Post from the Announcement to 1.3A

"IMPORTANT: In this first version, EPG genres cannot be configured on multiseat network clients. This is because the configuration application cannot connect to the TV database over the network. The best way to configure a multiseat setup is to make the changes on the TV server, open the MediaPortal.xml configuration file and copy the sections that look like this"

I have just a clean server running without a client installation. So i have to edit this file on the client by my own, as mentioned on this Post.

 

[elliottmc]

If needed i can submit LogFile

Logs are ALWAYS needed.

 

[ajp8164]

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.3

Description
It looks like, that not all characters are possible in the genremap section of Mediaportal.xml

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit Mediaportal.xml to the following
&lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;
&lt;entry name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;Fußball&lt;/entry&gt;
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does not work
Change to
&lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;
&lt;entry name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;Fussball&lt;/entry&gt;
Try to start Mediaportal ... it does work
So the letter &quot;ß&quot; is the showstopper here. The problem is that the most german EPG providers will say Fußball instead of Fussball. So Colored EPG will not work in this case.
If needed i can submit LogFile

Please post logs so we can see the cause.
You should not have to be editing your xml files to use this feature.
Thanks!

Post from the Announcement to 1.3A

"IMPORTANT: In this first version, EPG genres cannot be configured on multiseat network clients. This is because the configuration application cannot connect to the TV database over the network. The best way to configure a multiseat setup is to make the changes on the TV server, open the MediaPortal.xml configuration file and copy the sections that look like this"

I have just a clean server running without a client installation. So i have to edit this file on the client by my own, as mentioned on this Post.

Yeah, sorry - I only use single seat and forget that not everyone does ;-) Hopefully we'll get you out of the need to hand edit soon!

 

[Holzi]

holzi,
it seems that you don't use proper encoding while editing this file. you should set it to utf8.

I did not edit anything manually. It was created while testing genres and directly written from config into mediaportal.xml

 

[Jelmo]

Here comes the Debug .... for me it seems, that MePo ignores the mediaportal.xml because of this error. I can not find where to find / wich file