[mythtvnz] How to clean up dvbsnoop output?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:24:07 +1200, you wrote:

>I'm still getting characters with the MSB set from dvbsnoop which causes
>mfdb via tv_grab_nz-py to fail completely.
>
>I'm not sure if the correct fix would be in dvbsnoop, epgsnoop or
>tv_grab_nz-py but I'm open to suggestions on exactly how to implement such
>a fix...
>
>There is still an issue with default character set assumptions when
>merging the web based freeview with homebrew sky data as well since the
>former doesn't declare a set but epgsnoop puts one it. It all works still,
>it would just be nice to remove another warning!
>
>Cheers

I would think you could use the tr command to filter the file and
change all the bad characters to spaces or delete them, if you know
what the bad character values are.