[mythtv-users] Channel Icons

[Claude Boucher]

I always put the full path of my icons in the 'channel' table.

The default location for icons is the ~/.mythtv/channels/ directory.
The ~/.mythtv/ directory is also the place where you normally put your 
customized menu files  (mainmenu.xml, etc.) and the default location for 
stuff like the  MythVideo posters.

It's all fine and dandy but with three MythTV boxes running in the house 
(1 combined BE/FE in the living room and two part-time Myth FE in my 
office and son's room) this fast became a hassle to manage. Since I had 
shared the /mythtv directory for the home LAN, the logical next step was 
to move these files to a subdirectory thereof.

/mythtv/recordings --> nuv recordings
/mythtv/video         --> my MythVideo DivX and XVid
/mythtv/music         --> my MP3/OGG files
/mythtv/images       --> my  digital stills collection
AND
/mythtv/settings      --> most settings shared by my combined BE/FE and 
the two remote FE
/mythtv/settings/menus with symbolic links to ~/.mythtv/ for my 
customized FE menus
/mythtv/settings/posters for my MythVideo posters
/mythtv/settings/channels for the channel icons

I then moved my old posters directory to /mythtv/settings/posters and 
changed the URI for the posters in the mySQL database by issuing this 
command:
UPDATE videometadata SET coverfile = 
REPLACE(coverfile,'/home/mythtv/.mythtv','/mythtv/settings');

and I did the same for the channel icons:  move them out of the 
~/.mythtv/channels to /mythtv/settings/channels, then change the URI for 
the icons in mySQL:
UPDATE channel SET icon = 
REPLACE(icon,'/home/mythtv/.mythtv','/mythtv/settings');

Just another point: I've seen on this thread a lot of talk about the 
lyngsat logos in jpeg format.
For line art drawings, I usually prefer png while resizing them to a 
square with the gimp or Photoshop. It looks better with the OSD I use 
(VisorOSD).

Claude

Adam Egger a écrit :

>On 8/11/05, Marty Ravell <mythtv at rave-tech.com.au> wrote:
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>>Send whatever you have. Who knows, they may be better than what I've got so
>>far.
>>
>>I'll put these up on a webpage shortly. May look into a script to load the
>>info into the mythconverg database as well. Doing this manually with the UI
>>is a bit of a pain.
>>    
>>
>
>I have two questions regarding icons, too. Can relative paths be used
>for the icons? So is there a default directory for icons? I already
>tried /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels and a few more folders but it
>always doesn't work without an absolute path for every icon.
>I'm using transparent png files as channel icons. So I unfortunatelly
>still can see the channel name in the EPG view (mythepg) below the png
>files (in the upper left corner). How can I disable the channel name
>and only display the icon in the epg view?
>
>Adam
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