[mythtv-users] Mythweb Channel Icon problem
John Pilkington
johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 16:19:12 UTC 2018
On 20/09/18 13:36, Edmund Na wrote:
> The routine which copies Channel Icon images from Myth to Mythweb isn’t
> working correctly.
>
> At all times when I view Channel Icons on a frontend or in mythtv-setup
> I see what I expect, but recently a couple of images were updated and
> then they didn’t display on Mythweb – they showed as missing/corrupted
> image rather than no image.
>
> The icons are stored in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/ and have user and
> group permission mythtv, but they are readable by all.
>
> Mythweb seems to access the images from /var/cache/mythweb/image_cache
> and most images here are correct. I understand that when a new icon is
> added or used something copies it to the image_cache folder. In my case
> that process is producing corrupted images; each is 44Bytes. It is an
> empty xml file. This is the same for PNG and jpg.
>
> If I manually copy the icons from channels to image_cache I see the
> images I expect on Mythweb, however I would like to see if I can
> understand what is going wrong as this may indicate something else is wrong.
>
> I am running Myth 0.28.0+fixes.20160413 and Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
>
I've been puzzled by this thread. I haven't seen channel icons for
several months and understood that direct downloads in mythtv-setup were
being blocked at source. I just tried it and still see no icons.
Perhaps you have a different source or are using old downloads.
See the last section of
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_icons
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