[mythtvnz] Channel Icons

[Bruce Wilson]

On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 21:28 +1200, hoiho.nz at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.
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> I see the benefits of my approach as follows:
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> 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 neat. Would you be willing to share your code/script?

Cheers
Bruce