1) Animal Planet: 2003-08-19 06:00am -300: "Vídeos Divertidos do Animal Planet" -> "Vdeos Divertidos do Animal Planet" There are much more, take a look in the XML for &; and then try to check it in freevo The Grabber is avaiable at: http://gsbarbieri.sytes.net/pytvgrab/TVGrab-0.1.0-2.tar.bz2 Maybe you want to look at it, I'm not sure about the unicode/latin1 stuff. Ie: I'm using UTF-8 in xml, but I need to convert it to unicode before writing the file to disk? If I convert it to latin-1, and use it as ISO8859-1, should it work?