[mythtv-users] What is the best way to get channel icons

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jan 2 03:11:49 UTC 2010


On 01/01/2010 08:33 PM, Steve V wrote:
> From: greg
>> Brent Bolin wrote:
>>     
>>> I installed blue-abstract-wide theme.  It looked bad or had missing
>>> info in the guide data.
>>>
>>> Attempted to use perl channel_icons.pl but haven't had much luck.
>>>
>>> It's really screwed up my guide data screen(just hangs).
>>>
>>> Currently using Schedules Direct, but from what I read they don't
>>> provide channel icon data
>> You can download the icon's in mythtv-setup.. I am doing this from 
>> memory,but I think it's on the channel editor  page..
> Your guide is probably hanging because in channel editor you have icons entered but the icon files do not exist.
>
> To get the guide working quickly delete the icon entry for each channel.
>
> But to fix you can download icons and set the file path correctly for each channel.

Or your frontend and backend user don't both have permissions to the 
files/directories.

Mike


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