[mythtvnz] Channel Icons

[David Moore]

On 20/05/2014, at 9:28 PM, hoiho.nz at gmail.com 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?
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
More info please on how you extracted the MHEG icons. Sounds like something I might include in a future (later when I have spare time) update of mhegepgsnoop.

David