[mythtv-users] What is the best way to get channel icons

[Brent Bolin]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Brent Bolin wrote:
>> > I installed blue-abstract-wide theme.  It looked bad or had missing
>> > info in the guide data.
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>> > Attempted to use perl channel_icons.pl but haven't had much luck.
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>> > It's really screwed up my guide data screen(just hangs).
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>> > Currently using Schedules Direct, but from what I read they don't
>> > provide channel icon data
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>> You can download the icon's in mythtv-setup.. I am doing this from
>> memory,but I think it's on the channel editor  page..
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> Your guide is probably hanging because in channel editor you have icons entered but the icon files do not exist.
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> To get the guide working quickly delete the icon entry for each channel.
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> But to fix you can download icons and set the file path correctly for each channel.
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Got it.  Yes it is in the channel editor on the back end.

This is all OTA recordings, so some of the local channels have funky
names.  Found it better to put the city in and search on that.

Thanks