Channel Logos not appearing?

[time_lord]

Hi, not a big issue but something I've been wondering about for months now. My channel logos do not appear in the TV guide, but do when I select a program. Any ideas why?
I got the logos via EPG Collector; all are 318x72. They are all named to match my channels. I took a look at the wiki and all it says is where to put them and the naming convention. Does size matter? I.e are they not high enough res for the TV guide (NCL1.jpg) but are sufficient for a selected program (NCL2.jpg)?
Edit: I'm on 2.1.4, about to install 2.1.5.

[McBainUK]

What file extension do your channel logos have?

[time_lord]

all are (lowercase) .png

[McBainUK]

Is your TV shape set to 4x3? The 4x3 TV guide skin doesn't support channel logos. You'll need to wait for sub to explain if this is intentional or a bug.

16x9 skin:

Code:

<Element alpha="255" size="15.45,6.12" location="1.55,16.6" name="Channels" clearBeforeRender="true"> <Rect size="99.6,100" location="0.2,0" fillColor="Channels"/> <Text size="94,100" location="3,0" valign="Center" align="Left" font="DefaultMinimum" text="@number"/> <Text size="72,100" location="26,0" valign="Center" align="Right" font="DefaultMinimum" text="@name" visible="!@hasChannelIcon"/> <Text size="52,100" location="46,0" valign="Center" align="Right" font="DefaultMinimum" text="@name" visible="@hasChannelIcon"/> [B]<Image size="26,96" location="21,2" source="@icon" fixedAspectRatio="true"/>[/B] </Element>

4x3 skin:

Code:

<Element alpha="255" size="15.45,6.12" location="1.55,16.6" name="Channels" clearBeforeRender="true"> <Rect size="99.6,100" location="0.2,0" fillColor="Channels"/> <Text size="94,100" location="3,0" valign="Center" align="Left" font="DefaultMinimum" text="@number"/> <Text size="77,100" location="21,0" valign="Center" align="Right" font="DefaultMinimum" text="@name"/> </Element>

[time_lord]

Is your TV shape set to 4x3? The 4x3 TV guide skin doesn't support channel logos. You'll need to wait for sub to explain if this is intentional or a bug.

Brilliant! I hadn't noticed I was set to 4x3 (I'll explain in a minute); changing to 16x9 shows the attached. But I thought the logos would take the full width/height of the LHS cells? (Rather than shrinking to oblivion so the text of the channel names can still appear?)

I usually run in dual-monitor mode; PC is 4x3, TV 16x9; PC cloning the TV which is set to be the primary. When I maximise npvr, it has the correct aspect ratio on the TV (even though npvr setting is set to 4:3). If I am not maximised, the aspect ratio (still correct on TV) on the PC is almost correct (virtual desktop pans sideways to mimic 16x9). When I turn off dual monitor mode and make PC the primary monitor (often I do this when sitting at PC and have npvr running in the corner of screen), npvr retains its 16x9 aspect ratio, even though it's configured for 4x3.
Having changed to 16x9 in the settings, it has made no difference to the aspect ratio of npvr because it was staying in 16x9 mode anyway! But the difference is that the logos now appear. So maybe sub does have a reason to not want to display logos in 4:3 mode... it seems he's hard-wired this to depend on whether 4:3 is set. But that seems to be redundant because (as I rather badly explain above), the npvr aspect ratio in reality might remain in 16x9, regardless of whether 16x9 or 4:3 is set!
Crikey, I'm sure I'm gonna confuse people...

[johnsonx42]

The 4x3 TV guide skin doesn't support channel logos. You'll need to wait for sub to explain if this is intentional or a bug.

I used to have channel logos on my 4x3 setup, but you're right, they're gone now. I hadn't even noticed.

[sub]

It was intenional for 4x3 to not show the icons. There wasnt the horizontal space to squeeze them in between the channel number and name.

[sub]

Brilliant! I hadn't noticed I was set to 4x3 (I'll explain in a minute); changing to 16x9 shows the attached. But I thought the logos would take the full width/height of the LHS cells? (Rather than shrinking to oblivion so the text of the channel names can still appear?)

It is designed to show your typical nearly-square channel icons, like you'd see at http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/tvcountry/nz_3.html, and displays them inbetween the channel number and channel name.

Instead of channel icons, you're trying to display some other type of wide rectangular channel logo/banner, so it just looks silly squeezed in to the channel icon spot. You can of course edit the skin file to display it whatever size you want though. ie, you can make it fill the whole cell, or be placed over the channel name, or whatever, but these are different shaped graphics than the norm, so its not going to do it by default.

[time_lord]

It is designed to show your typical nearly-square channel icons, like you'd see at http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/tvcountry/nz_3.html, and displays them inbetween the channel number and channel name.

Brilliant sub, thanks for the explanation. (And I was wondering why there were some more square-shaped logos around :-) ) I'll do some playing with skins and see if I can summarise this all for the wiki (largely parroting what you've described :-) )

[HarryH3]

It was intenional for 4x3 to not show the icons. There wasnt the horizontal space to squeeze them in between the channel number and name.

It would be awesome if that tidbit of info were included on the Channel Logo page in the wiki...