[mythtv-users] mythtv dropping mysql???

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 21:59:20 UTC 2014


On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

OK I'll bite. How do I get a list of commercial cut points from the
Services API. It may be there, but I haven't found it.

Cheers.


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