[mythtv-users] mythtv dropping mysql???

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
.....
> Seems like whenever I add channel icons I have to tweak things in the
> database.
>
> This last round of channels I added all came as transparent png's which made
> many of the logo's hard to see in my theme so I used ImageMagick to resize
> and convert them to .jpg's with a white background, then updated the
> database to replace all of the '.png' with '.jpg'.  Sure I could have taken
> my system offline and used mythtv-setup to change the icon file names on the
> few dozen channels...  but DB access saved me tons of time and allowed me to
> make the changes while the system was up and running.

There is a services API for that.  I can understand the hammer
problem, but that is not a reason to not change.

Now, if you found the services API was not meeting your
needs, that is a different issue.