There are regular failures now of delivery of subtitles files. It starts to download them but they never convert to SRT and just delete. I followed this thread through but for someone like me who just uses the PVR and settings within, this is all way over my head to work out other ways of obtaining the subtitles.
I am on the latest version. Recent examples: The league of gentleman series 1 E4 & E5 Ronny Chieng E7 Strictly Come Dancing E23 (week 12) None of them have corrected the output since. The message on the PVR is: INFO: Downloaded: 390.29 MB (00:29:06) @ 37.62 Mb/s (hvfxsd1) [audio+video] INFO: Converting to MP4 INFO: Tagging MP4 INFO: Downloading subtitles ERROR: Failed to load subtitles: :7: parser error : Char 0x0 out of allowed range LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag title line 6 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag metadata line 5 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 3 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag tt line 2 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ INFO: Downloading subtitles ERROR: Failed to load subtitles: :7: parser error : Char 0x0 out of allowed range LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag title line 6 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag metadata line 5 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 3 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag tt line 2 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ INFO: Downloading subtitles ERROR: Failed to load subtitles: :7: parser error : Char 0x0 out of allowed range LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag title line 6 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag metadata line 5 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 3 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ :7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag tt line 2 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN 4 - BD313601 ^ ERROR: Subtitles conversion to SRT failed ERROR: Use --subtitles-only to re-download Recording complete It is still a small % but frequent enough to be annoying if you rely on subtitles to fully follow the speech. GT -----Original Message----- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of RS Sent: 10 November 2017 11:44 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: parser error From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 6:59 PM >by opening >http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/subtitles/ng/modav/bUnknown-5df25dc8-d38f- >43e5-93a2-38b6c778f852_b09c79wx_1509625417009.xml >one can read: > Created on 2/11/2017 at 12:23:23 >so this was just fixed at noon yesterday (most recent Suspicion repeat >aired on 22/10/2017@13:30; so it took them eleven days to identify and >remedy the problem)... >I have no doubt an iPlayer user did alert them; however, this is not >mentioned as a "Recently Fixed Fault" at: >https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/programme-availability/programme-iss >ues There is a report in the forum https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=1587 of a subtitle file with 3 NULs in <head><metadata> in lines 7 and 10. The PID is b0074513 and the file is http://vod-sub-uk-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/iplayer/subtitles/ng/modav/bUnkno wn-6dc3f082-7f2f-4410-818e-4e86a3e2736f_b000tm9z_1509582051026.xml It seems the person reporting it is outside the UK, so dinky has said he or she can't investigate, although a link to an online subtitles editor has been given, and the next release will fail more gracefully. If there are only one or two a month it is not a serious problem, especially if they do get corrected eventually. Best wishes Richard _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer