[mythtv-users] icon wierdness

[James Linder]

Hi All

I just tried with a new browser and the icons are correct, so that part is a browser cache issue!

James

> icon download failed miserably for me!. 50% were not found the rest did not appear.
> I manaully found icons, which I put in mythtvuser/.mythtv/channels and edited the DB to reflect that:
> 
> MariaDB [mythconverg]> select channum, name,icon from channel;
> +---------+-----------------+-------------------+
> | channum | name            | icon              |
> +---------+-----------------+-------------------+
> | 7       | 7 Perth         | seven.png         |
> | 72      | 7TWO Perth      | 7two.png          |
> | 73      | 7mate Perth     | 7mate.png         |
> | 70      | 7HD Perth       | 7HD.png           |
> | 76      | 7flix Perth     | 7flix.png         |
> | 74      | 7food network   | 7food.png         |
> | 78      | RACING.COM      | racing.png        |
> | 9       | Channel 9 Perth | 9.png             |
> | 90      | 9HD Perth       | 9HD.png           |
> | 99      | 9Go!            | 9go.png           |
> | 94      | 9Life           | 9life.png         |
> | 95      | Your Money      | yourmoney.png     |
> | 91      | Channel 9 Perth | 9.png             |
> | 92      | 9Gem            | 9gem.png          |
> | 93      | 9Go!            | 9go.png           |
> | 13      | 10 HD           | 10HD.png          |
> | 10      | 10              | 10.png            |
> | 14      | TVSN            | TVSN.png          |
> | 12      | 10 BOLD         | 10bold.png        |
> | 11      | 10 Peach        | 10peach.png       |
> | 15      | SpreeTV         | spree.png         |
> | 44      | West TV         | wtv.png           |
> | 2       | ABC NEWS        | abcnews.png       |
> | 3       | ABC             | abc.png           |
> | 4       | ABCComedy/Kids  | ABC2.png          |
> | 6       | ABC ME          | abcme.png         |
> | 8       | ABC HD          | abchd.png         |
> | 16      | SBS ONE         | sbs.png           |
> | 18      | SBS Food        | sbsfood.png       |
> | 34      | NITV            | sbsnitv.png       |
> | 20      | SBS ONE HD      | sbshd.png         |
> | 21      | SBS VICELAND HD | sbsvicelandhd.png |
> | 23      | SBS VICELAND    | sbsviceland.png   |
> +---------+-----------------+—————————+
> 
> All good except a couple of icons were BLACK on TRANSPARENT. The web page (:6544) and setup-mythtv showed BACK on BLACK.
> A quick gimp made them WHITE on TRANSPARENT in addition (and this is relevant) I had copied sbsviceland.png to sbsvicelanhd.png.
> I added “HD” to the sbsvicelanhd.pnd image.
> 
> I restarted mythbackend (that is a funny that needs to be done) and cleared the browser cache.
> 
> mythtv-setuo->channel editor uses the correct images showing white-on-black and showing the new “HD” image.
> :6544 uses the old images, black-on-nearlyblack and without the “HD” qualification.
> 
> In addtion my channels directory becomes polluted with extra (presumably downloaded) images:
> 
> [sandypit] /home/jam/.mythtv/channels [455]% ls
> 10bold.png   7food.png  9go.png    9.png.0x57.png      abcnews.png  sbsnitv.png        spree.png
> 10HD.png     7HD.png    9HD.png    ABC2.png            abc.png      sbs.png            TVSN.png
> 10peach.png  7mate.png  9life.png  abchd.png           racing.png   sbsvicelandhd.png  wtv.png
> 10.png       7two.png   9now.png   abcme.png           sbsfood.png  sbsviceland.png    yourmoney.png
> 7flix.png    9gem.png   9.png      abcme.png.0x57.png  sbshd.png    seven.png
> 
> These extra images (ie the ones with 0x57 in the title, the list grows with time)
> 
> So questions are:
> 1) How to make the built-in server use the correct icons
> 2) Where do the old icons come from (remember mythbackend has been restarted)
> 3) How/What/Where on the strange downloaded icons, in particular how to stop the download happening
> 
> Thanks
> James 
> 
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