I'm trying to burn a DVD in R5B7, however the title of the TV shows being burned is causing XML errors. Have a look:



(I'm burning it for a friend, honest )

Check out the double "--" within the quote.

Is there any way to modify the title so this error doesn't happen?

I think you'll have to alter the record in the mysql database.

I haven't come across that one exactly.. but I just worked out the same kinds of problem with the "&". The program that I'm working with is "Penn & Teller.xml" (This is no BS! ) .. and dvdauthor gives up on the "&" charcter when trying to parse it.

Here's the solution that I worked out...

<vob file="Penn &amp; Teller.mpg" />

yeah, some other special characters have a simular fate! I used Google with the following search string to give me some hints.. "xml represent "&" character".

Here's a clip from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml

"An entity reference is a placeholder that represents that entity. It consists of the entity's name preceded by an ampersand ("&") and followed by a semicolon (";"). XML has five predeclared entities: "

&amp; (&)
&lt; (<)
&gt; (>)
&apos; (')
&quot; (")

"Numeric character references look like entities, but instead of a name, they contain the "#" character followed by a number. The number (in decimal or "x"-prefixed hexadecimal) represents a Unicode code point, and is typically used to represent characters that are not easily encodable, such as an Arabic character in a document produced on a European computer. The ampersand in the "AT&T" example could also be escaped like this (decimal 38 and hexadecimal 26 both represent the Unicode value for the "&" character): "

<company-name>AT&T</company-name>
<company-name>AT&#x26;T</company-name>


Good Luck!

// Brian

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I'm having the same problem with trying to record an episode of Survivor to DVD (for my mom ;) ) as well. What ended up being the best work around for you? I'm not super keen on changing the database record, I'd rather make a change to the script so any Survior episodes I need to burn later don't have this problem. I'm not much of a coder, but I can find my way around vi ok if someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction.

Cheers,
Jamie