[mythtv-users] New channel logo not displaying

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Thu Dec 5 15:39:33 UTC 2013


On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:32:54 -0500, you wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Stephen Worthington <
>stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:19:57 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> >We added a new OTA channel here in Toronto as CHCH Hamilton moved to UHF
>> >from VHF making it reach us better.
>> >
>> >I downloaded the logo. It's with my other logos:
>> >
>> >/home/ian/.mythtv/channels/CHCH_logo.png
>> >
>> >If I look in mysql, it's there too:
>> >
>> >/home/ian/.mythtv/channels/CHCH_logo.png
>> >
>> >But still it doesn't display. Scratching my head...
>>
>> Have you checked that it really is a displayable .png file?  Try using
>> a program that displays picture files to check.  Sometimes you can
>> think you have downloaded a file and what you have really got is a bit
>> of HTML saying the file is stored somewhere else or some other problem
>> like that.
>
>
>I did a save image as on the logo and confirmed that it was an image file
>with an image program.

So, how about the permissions.  There would have to be read access by
either the mythtv user or the mythtv group.  I have my channel icon
files all set to chmod a+r, and owner and group set to my MythTV user,
which is of course a member of the mythtv group.


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