[mythtv-users] Channel icons

[Anthony Messina]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 12:10:29 am 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.

mythfilldatabase runs from the backend process normally. in fedora, 
mythbackend runs as root. does this mean mythfilldatabase run as root?  if 
so, is there a good recommendation on how to share the files this way over 
nfs to multiple frontends, say perhaps, a way to specify where i want the 
icons downloaded to? 

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