[mythtv-users] Channel icons not shown

David Moore dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz
Sat Jun 2 10:24:42 UTC 2012


On 02/06/12 21:50, Karl Dietz wrote:
> On 02.06.2012 11:26, David Moore wrote:
>> I noticed a few posts about channel icons not showing. I have this
>> problem (and others) since upgrading to 0.25. I get errors like this:
>>
>> Jun 2 21:13:59 dmoo1790-desktop mythfrontend[27188]: E ImageLoad
>> mythuihelper.cpp:1378 (LoadScaleImage) MythUIHelper:
>> LoadScaleImage(myth://ChannelIcons@127.0.0.1:6543/home/dmoo1790/.mythtv/channels/tv_one.png)
>>
>> failed to load image
>>
>> dmoo1790 at dmoo1790-desktop:~/.mythtv/channels$ identify tv3.jpg
>> tv3.jpg JPEG 107x35 107x35+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 2.94KiB 0.000u 0:00.000
>>
>> My system is a combined BE/FE. Ubuntu 10.04. Updated using mythbuntu
>> repo.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Are the files accessible to the mythtv backend user?
>
> You could switch to SG by moving the icons to
> ~backenduserid/.mythtv/channels and changing the channel table to only
> contain the filename without path.
>
> The issue is between running mfdb/setup/backend with different user ids
> without setting MYTHCONFDIR and the path being stored absolute (local
> access) instead of relative (SG access)
> see also http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10659
>
> Regards,
> Karl

Brilliant! Thank you. As suggested I moved the files to 
/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/ and removed the path from the channel 
table and that seems to have fixed things.

Next problem is A/V sync which I suspect may be harder to solve. :(


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