[vdr] Re: VDR Burn: The image could not be loaded

[Luis Palacios <luis@luispa.com>]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:59:48 +0200
Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 14:27 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:44 +0000, David Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > However, the image file is indeed in that location, with correct 
> > > permissions .. and indeed, if I manually run the command outside of vdr 
> > > as the vdr user "imlib2 imlib_load_image 
> > > /video/plugins/burn/menu-bg.png" it runs fine.
> > 
> > I have exactly the same problem, but no solution.  imlib2 1.2.0.
> >
> > I added a bit of debugging code to vdr-burn to see the imlib2 error code
> > (see attachment), but unfortunately that won't help much; the error is
> > always 14 (IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_UNKNOWN).
> 
> Some more info:
> 
> I added more error checks / output to vdr-burn (see attachment), and it
> seems my imlib2 1.2.0 cannot load nor save png's when used from inside
> vdr-burn.  It works fine when used elsewhere, and I can't see anything
> obviously wrong with the vdr-burn code.  Beats me.
> 
> Oh, and the good news: downgrading imlib2 to 1.1.2 fixes it for me.
> 

I tried also with imlib2 1.2.0.20050116, same problem, and confirmed here also
that downgrading to 1.1.2 fixes it. 

(I do use gentoo. Just in case someone else does, it's still available on
portage with 'emerge =media-libs/imlib2-1.1.2.ebuild').