[mythtv] PATCH Potential DataDirect icon solution

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 21 May 2004 09:55 am, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Anduin Withers" <awithers at anduin.com> writes:
> >> Uhh, I'm confused again.  The xmltv icon grabber takes a lineup and
> >> then provides you a set of icons for your lineup.  It'll download the
> >> icons, too.  What kind of "network intermediate mapping" do you mean?
> >
> > As I was envisioning a largely manual process I wanted to make it easy
> > for someone to go through their local channels and not have to lookup
> > every icon for FOX, CBS, etc.
>
> But that's my point -- if you use the xmltv icon grabber you don't have
> a manual process!  The xmltv code will grab all the icons for your
> lineup directly.  No manual intervention required.
>
> Why go through all the extra work to manually map WFXT -> FOX and then
> FOX -> foxicon when xmltv can perform the direct mapping of WFXT ->
> foxicon for you, automatically?
>
> This all still seems like a lot of extra work for very little gain.

Not having a dependency on xmltv is a very big gain.

Isaac