[mythtv] Some channel images (gif) fail loading for epg

[Christian Hoehle]

Hi,

it seems that there is something wrong with gif support for epg (or those
gifs are non-standard, don't know). I can't see most of them when using epg.
Backend logs the following:
...
2005-03-02 20:03:38.116 Invalid file handle when opening
/mythuser_homedir/.mythtv/channels/rtl.gif.  0 retries remaining.
2005-03-02 20:03:38.852 Invalid file handle when opening
/mythuser_homedir/.mythtv/channels/sat1.gif.  0 retries remaining.
2005-03-02 20:03:39.576 Invalid file handle when opening
/mythuser_homedir/.mythtv/channels/pro7.gif.  0 retries remaining.
2005-03-02 20:03:40.299 Invalid file handle when opening
/mythuser_homedir/.mythtv/channels/vox.gif.  0 retries remaining.
2005-03-02 20:03:43.264 Invalid file handle when opening
/mythuser_homedir/.mythtv/channels/kabel1.gif.  0 retries remaining.
2005-03-02 20:03:48.162 Invalid file handle when opening
/mythuser_homedir/.mythtv/channels/superrtl.gif.  0 retries remaining.
...

I tried to save the gifs as png and modified the channel properties to use
those pngs instead, and everything works fine. Images are shown as they
should.

Unmodified gifs that fail to load with mythbackend work fine with mythweb
using a browser on the same machine the backend runs on (SuSE 9.2) as well
as on Windows machines using IE.

Any ideas?

Chris