mythvideo does not find files with german Umlaut (äöü)

[Stefan Pappalardo]

Binary package hint: mythplugins

When searching for new video files in mythvideo the following file was not recognized.

  "Bibi und Tina 4x04 Gestüt Szendrö in Gefahr.avi"

When changing the "ö" to "oe" and the "ü" to "ue", for example with a soft link, ...

  $ ln -s Bibi\ und\ Tina\ 4x04\ Gestüt\ Szendrö\ in\ Gefahr.avi Bibi\ und\ Tina\ 4x04\ Gestuet\ Szendroe\ in\ Gefahr.avi

...the link is recognized and the file can be played in mythvideo.

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
mythvideo:
  Installiert: 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
  Kandidat: 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mythvideo 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 19 13:23:22 2010
Installed_mythplugins-dbg: 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
Installed_mythtv-dbg: 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mythplugins

[René Fritz (ubuntu-colorcube)]

I have the same problem.

The problem seems to be that LC_ALL is not set for the mythbackend.

Discussed here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/438440

[René Fritz (ubuntu-colorcube)]

I put the line

export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8

into /etc/default/mythtv-backend

That fixed it for me.
(But this is of course not a general solution)

[pjw (pjw1965)]

I don't have this problem and I have lots of AVI-Files for mythvideo with german umlauts. All are displayed and played. No LC_ALL is set. Is it solved in QT** as someone in the other discussion said it could be a QT issue? It could also be a filesystem issue. I used first ext4 and now xfs for the videos, both without naming problems.

I use mythbuntu as backend/frontend and another frontend on a plain ubuntu 10.04 with the locations of the files mounted with sshfs.

On both machines are:
$ dpkg -l mythtv-frontend mythvideo libqtcore4 linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic | less
ii mythtv-frontend 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2 A personal video recorder application (client)
ii mythvideo 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2 A generic video player frontend module for Myt
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1 Qt 4 core module
ii linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic 2.6.32-25.44 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86

$ locale
LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_CH.UTF-8"
...
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

What QT-Version do you have? Is the problem still there without the fix above?

[Stefan Pappalardo (sjuk)]

Hello pjw,

here is the information from my mythbuntu-box you requested.

ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1 Qt 4 core module
ii linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic 2.6.32-25.44 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64
ii mythtv-frontend 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2 A personal video recorder application (client)
ii mythvideo 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2 A generic video player frontend module for MythTV

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
...
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=The problem is still there, and I didn't try the "LC_ALL"-workaround, because of the side-effects it will have.

[pjw (pjw1965)]

I added Storage directories for MythVideo and now I have the same problem!!!
Without Storage directories and using the directory settings in the frontend it's different.

[Stefan Pappalardo (sjuk)]

The issue went gone with the mythbuntu weekly build (0.24).

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is no longer supported; EOL reached since a while.