parser error

Fri Nov 10 03:43:30 PST 2017

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 at 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-issues

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/bUnknown-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 