[mythtvnz] Channel Icons

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 20 May 2014 21:28:57 +1200, you wrote:

>On 20 May 2014 12:36:12 PM NZST, Aaron Pelly <apelly at monkeymasters.co.nz> wrote:
>>The channel icons from lyngsat are shit. I looked online, but only
>>found 
>>one complete set. These were also marginal at best. So I started with 
>>the complete set and replaced or enhanced the ones that were at all 
>>interesting to me. I'm inclined to stick them on github. Maybe there is
>>
>>a good set out there already; I didn't particularly want to ask,
>>because 
>>I'm already overwhelming the list. As usual, I have a couple of
>>questions:
>>
>>There is a documented size for myth channel logos, but all themes scale
>>
>>them to fit anyway. Terra uses 4:3 proportions and some (most?) use
>>1:1. 
>>It is easy to make both. The question is what to name them. At the 
>>moment the names are a bit messy, but it might make them easier to use 
>>if they had names that myth was expecting.
>>
>>Have I wasted my time?
>>What is the myth channel icon naming convention?

>
>You mention lyngsat so I guess you source your tv from sat.  I am a dvb-t consumer so I have taken a different approach.
>
>The mheg stream contains icon images which are used ( I assume ) by the freeview guide displays.
>
>So as I am already grabbing my epg from mheg I also grab the icon images and then process them with a little ImageMagick script.  As for naming convention i decided on using the mheg service id so the TV One icon is called 1200.png.
>
>I see the benefits of my approach as follows:
>
>I automatically get icons for all new channels
>I automatically get any changed icons if a chanel rebrands
>
>I feel it is a total soution for dvb-t users but does not address sky channels or those people that use freeview sat.
>
>Tony

That is an excellent trick.  What software are you using to grab the
icons?