[mythtv] New method for channel icon lookup

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Mon Mar 5 01:16:35 UTC 2007


> After several weeks of coding/testing, I can now say that the new
> channel icon lookup code is "stable" and ready for more mainstream
> testing, as well as integration into mythtv-setup, frontend, etc.
>
> I have created a new script called channel_icons.pl, which is located in
> contrib/master_iconmap/ (fyi, it requires the perl bindings from svn
> mythtv in order to work).  This script connects to services.mythtv.org
> to perform lookups/searches for all of the channels in your database,
> and will then (after prompting) submit any choices back to the server
> for inclusion in the default setup (after verification by admins).
>
> It's my goal to have this completely replace the current master_iconmap
> stuff, since the new features track xmltvid, dvb id and atsc id fields
> as well as callsign (which isn't used much outside of north america).
>
> Please contact me if you're interested in helping to integrate this tool
> with the rest of MythTV.

Is this world wide or USA only? Are there any dependancies on xmltv,
zap2it (whatever its called) or file input to mythfilldatabase from a hand
crafted XML source?

Cheers

-- 
Robin Gilks



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