Suddenly getting the below error message when running PVR right after the INFO line showing the first PVR search.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in split at C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 1403, line 185.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) in split at C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 1403, line 190.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 1393, line 192.

Literally started happening when I clicked Run PVR about 10 minutes after clicking Run PVR that succesfully ran with no errors (no downloads either as nothing new to download)

This initially started on a Windows XP install of V3.01, updated to V3.04 and continued, now installed on Windows 8.1 machine and still happening.

What I have found is that I removed the very first search in my PVR list it now gets to about the 5th search before I get the error message.

Any ideas ?

Delete your cache files and rebuild them --cache-rebuild. Alternatively, try to edit them to remove the bad characters. The second line number in each error message tells you where to look, but there could be many more.

Fingers crossed that seems to have worked - will see when the PVR has finished.

When I tried this previously I now realise I only rebuilt the cache from the command line but without deleting the old cache files first - seems that it left the radio cache untouched. deleting all then rebuilding seems to have worked.

Thank you.