[mythtv-users] Trouble getting channel icons.

[Marc Chamberlin]

Well I am lost and after doing some googling about this problem, 
apparently so are a lot of other folks... Lots of confusion seems to 
abound, so will ask here..

I am trying to set up mythTV for the first time, and got to the point of 
trying to install the icons for the various TV stations...  have 
subscribed to Schedules Direct and am getting listings fine. My 
distribution of SuSE 10.3 has supplied me (via Packman repositories) 
what appears to be the correct/latest version of MythTV 0.20.2-9 but 
perhaps something is wrong with it, dunno...

Anywise got to where I wanted to grab the channel icons, an ran -

perl mkiconmap.pl

This failed to produce a valid iconmap.xml file. It did produce the file 
with almost nothing in it. The perl script never asked me anything about 
my zip code or service as implied in the documentation at 
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.5 It seemed to return 
far to quickly to have done anything much IMHO..

So I gave up and decided to try the second suggestion - to use the 
generic master_iconmap.xml file that came in the contrib directory. 
Copied it to my mythTV home directory, renamed it to iconmap.xml and ran -

mythfilldatabase --import-icon-map iconmap.xml --update-icon-map

That didn't work either, and as near as I can tell from the output there 
were a LOT of failures surrounding a URL for http://images.zap2it.com  
mostly 404 Not Found errors which I suspect means this URL is no longer 
viable.

In my wanderings around the internet and on the mythtv web site I read 
something about zap2it no longer supporting TV listings??? So are these 
scripts/XML files outdated? Where do I go from here, as I said in the 
beginning I am lost!

   Marc...