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Channel Icons
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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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 20/05/14 12:36, Aaron Pelly wrote:
> Have I wasted my time?

Good one, not a waste of time at all.

I've been meaning to fix up my icons after setting up channels from
scratch the other day so I'd appreciate you putting them up.

> What is the myth channel icon naming convention?

No naming convention from what I'm aware, just name them after the channel.

Cheers,

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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 20 May 2014 13:06, Hadley Rich <hads@nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On 20/05/14 12:36, Aaron Pelly wrote:
>
>> Have I wasted my time?
>>
>
> Good one, not a waste of time at all.


Agreed - I would very much like a complete set. Well done that man.

Cheers,
Duncan
Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 20/05/14 13:06, Hadley Rich wrote:
> I'd appreciate you putting them up.
Give me 24 hours to tidy up the names.

> > What is the myth channel icon naming convention?
>
> No naming convention from what I'm aware, just name them after the channel.
I'll do my best :)





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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 20 May 2014 12:36:12 PM NZST, Aaron Pelly <apelly@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


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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 20/05/14 12:36, Aaron Pelly wrote:
> 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.
Here they are:
https://github.com/apelly/mythtv-nz-channel-logos

The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to agree with Nick;
github is not the place for hosting someone else's IP. I still can't
think of a better place. I put (only some) effort into preparing these,
and in the spirit of open-sourcy-goodness github hosting may save some
people from duplicating that. I feel the spirit is in keeping with
github. That is how I am justifying it to myself.

Aaron.


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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:48:28PM +1200, Aaron Pelly wrote:
> On 20/05/14 12:36, Aaron Pelly wrote:
> >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.
> Here they are:
> https://github.com/apelly/mythtv-nz-channel-logos
>
> The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to agree with Nick; github
> is not the place for hosting someone else's IP.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 21/05/14 14:48, Aaron Pelly wrote:
> Here they are:
> https://github.com/apelly/mythtv-nz-channel-logos
Added The Edge and Four +1 if anyone wants them.

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Re: Channel Icons [ In reply to ]
On 13 July 2014 05:54, Aaron Pelly <apelly@monkeymasters.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On 21/05/14 14:48, Aaron Pelly wrote:
>>
>> Here they are:
>> https://github.com/apelly/mythtv-nz-channel-logos
>
> Added The Edge and Four +1 if anyone wants them.
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These are great! Thanks for the updated logos - very nice to have 'em
so nicely packaged all in one place.

What aspect ratio (4:3 or 1:1) do you recommend for the mythbuntu
theme (on a 16:9 display) ?

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