[mythtv-users] Channel icons

[Mike Perkins]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/05/2007 01:02 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> Is there a particular reason why the icons aren't stored once in the master 
>> backend (like most everything else) and then sent over the wire as required?
> 
> That's the plan (allow frontends to request channel icons using the Myth
> protocol and then cache them locally).  The code just isn't done, yet.
> 
> Much will improve with channel icons in the future.
>     - For SVN trunk users (and, therefore, for 0.21), the
> channel_icons.pl script allows you to grab icons without a local
> callsignnetworkmap and networkiconmap (the data that's in
> master_iconmap.xml), so mythfilldatabase isn't even involved, and it
> allows you to store to any directory (specified on the command-line),
> does searches using more than just callsign (i.e. xmltvid), allows
> manual searches (i.e. if your channel isn't found), and it sends
> "updates" back to mythtv.org showing what icons you chose for your
> channels (so the next time you run it it will automatically recognize
> your channels) if you allow it to do so.  Oh, and it works well even for
> people outside the US.
>     - The capability in channel_icons.pl will most likely eventually be
> made available through mythtv-setup and/or mythfrontend.
>     - Eventually, channel icons (among other things) will only have to
> be stored on the master backend and will be automatically provided to
> clients.
>     - Probably much more that I don't even know about...
> 
Wow, I'm impressed. I am just sorry that I can't help any of this effort just at 
the present.

Mike Perkins