[mythtv-users] Channel icons

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 10/04/2007 12:32 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> On Oct 3, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 10/03/2007 09:57 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just tried this on a whim, because I never had working channel
>>>> icons.  I now have channel icons in MythWeb, but they still don't
>>>> show up in the OSD when I hit 'I' twice during playback.  In
>>>> screenshots other people have posted the channel icon appears  
>>>> next to
>>>> the channel number.  Is there something I need to do to enable this
>>>> in mythfrontend?  I'm running 20.2-fixes.
>>>>
>>> They must exist "locally" (i.e. copied to or network mounted) on  
>>> each
>>> frontend.
>> Where does the frontend expect to find them?  I see where mythweb is
>> getting them, from /srv/www/htdocs/mythweb/data/tv_icons/.  But I'm
>> guessing the frontend expects them to be somewhere else...
>
> At the file location specified in the DB.  If you imported with
> mythfilldatabase, it should be in the ~/.mythtv/channels directory (of
> the user you used to get the channel icons).  Just copy that directory
> and its contents to the same location on all frontends and enjoy your
> channel icons.

Thanks.  I had actually looked there, but I forgot that I ran  
mythfilldatabase while logged in as a different user.