[mythtv-users] Who manages the channel icons for services.mythtv.org?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Wed Mar 12 20:06:03 UTC 2008


On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Chris Petersen wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:33 AM, John Massengale wrote:
>> Who manages the channel icons for services.mythtv.org? Is it  
>> possible to get involved in building/improving the database of  
>> images?
>
> I maintain the scripts themselves, but the database itself is  
> managed by a handful of the mythtv developers.  I'm not sure we're  
> ready to take on any new help at the moment because I'm hoping to  
> work with SD and the xmltv community to build a better database for  
> identifying this info.  The current services.mythtv.org stuff is  
> somewhat of a proof of concept -- better than what we had before,  
> but not particularly easy to maintain as channels change names,  
> logos, etc.

The biggest problem I've seen with it -- which you're probably aware  
of -- is that the names are chopped off too short to reliably identify  
many cable networks.  For example, I get the "Discover Kids" logo for  
all of the various Discover channels.

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