[mythtv] New method for channel icon lookup

[Rick Scott]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:19 +0000, John Pullan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/03/07, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
>         Robin Gilks wrote:
>         > Is this world wide or USA only? Are there any dependancies
>         on xmltv,
>         > zap2it (whatever its called) or file input to
>         mythfilldatabase from a hand
>         > crafted XML source?
>         
>         It uses icons from lyngsat, and should work for anywhere that
>         uses any 
>         of the four source types I listed:
>         
>         * xmltvid
>         * callsign
>         * dvb id trio (transport id, network id, service id)
>         * atsc id trio (transport id, major channel, minor channel)
>         
>         The db is stored at mythtv.org, so it's completely separate
>         from any
>         other service.  The perl script I wrote will walk you through
>         choosing/downloading the icons, and will update the db for
>         you.  I
>         expect that future versions of mythtv-setup, the frontend,
>         and/or 
>         mythweb will get some kind of gui, too.
>         
>         -Chris
> 
> This patch kind of works(ish). There are a few caveats:
> 1) The channel_icons.pl file needs to be in the same directory as the
> executable (mythtv-setup) 
> 2) The ~/.mythtv/channels needs to exist
> 3) You need to start the mythbackend
> 
> Hope this works.

Also, it should be using ${MYTHCONFDIR} before of ~/.mythtv.

> 
> --
> John
> 
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