nfo-files not recognized with special characters

[boywhosetsfire 12]

Hi,

 

First of all "Thanks!" for working so hard on this software! Now that Media Browser supports reading XBMC's nfo-files I rebuilt my database since I maintain my movies with nfo-files for years. Unfortunately a lot of movies were not recognized and the reason seems to be special characters in the nfo-files... at least the character & is killing the recognition. Unfortunately it exists in many of my movies due to the tag " which results in a " in XBMC.

 

Server version: 3.0.5306.18088

OS: Mac OS

 

Let me know if I should provide any log files, but this looks like a 100%-bug. As soon as I removed the character from the nfo and did a "refresh" the content was read successfully.

[Luke 42078]

Yea can you post a server log, and also a sample nfo file. thanks.

[boywhosetsfire 12]

Here we go, server log attached. Uploading the nfo-file doesn't work for some reason, but here it is (it's a really small one which I created for a home movie):

<movie>
  <title>Paula & Hannah (2012/2013)</title>
  <plot>Verschiedene Aufnahmen von Hannah und Paula aus den Jahren 2012 und 2013.</plot>
  <watched>false</watched>
</movie>

server-63540799149.txt

[Luke 42078]

Right, there's no bug. It's not valid xml. Try pasting that here and click validate:

 

http://www.xmlvalidation.com/

 

We handle special characters, but they need to be properly escaped.

[speechles 2055]

Does Mediabrowser XML parsing support cdata?

 

Paula & Hannah (2012/2013)

 

 

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[Luke 42078]

Does Mediabrowser XML parsing support cdata?

 

Paula & Hannah (2012/2013)

 

 

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yes. cdata is fine.

[boywhosetsfire 12]

Ah, you're right, escaping it with & fixed it. Thanks. Looks like I mixed up 2 different problems. Several other movies with nfo-files are still not recognized, but according to the logfile it seems to be another problem, the nfo seems to be fine. Maybe you can also take a look into this logfile.

 

I just put one movie which doesn't work into my sources-directory to keep the logfile as clean as possible. Folder structure looks like this:

 

 

So, the example folder "Birds of America" is within a movies-folder which I defined as source.

server-63540805084.txt

movie.nfo.zip