I always put the full path of my icons in the 'channel' table.
The default location for icons is the ~/.mythtv/channels/ directory.
The ~/.mythtv/ directory is also the place where you normally put your
customized menu files (mainmenu.xml, etc.) and the default location for
stuff like the MythVideo posters.
It's all fine and dandy but with three MythTV boxes running in the house
(1 combined BE/FE in the living room and two part-time Myth FE in my
office and son's room) this fast became a hassle to manage. Since I had
shared the /mythtv directory for the home LAN, the logical next step was
to move these files to a subdirectory thereof.
/mythtv/recordings --> nuv recordings
/mythtv/video --> my MythVideo DivX and XVid
/mythtv/music --> my MP3/OGG files
/mythtv/images --> my digital stills collection
AND
/mythtv/settings --> most settings shared by my combined BE/FE and
the two remote FE
/mythtv/settings/menus with symbolic links to ~/.mythtv/ for my
customized FE menus
/mythtv/settings/posters for my MythVideo posters
/mythtv/settings/channels for the channel icons
I then moved my old posters directory to /mythtv/settings/posters and
changed the URI for the posters in the mySQL database by issuing this
command:
UPDATE videometadata SET coverfile =
REPLACE(coverfile,'/home/mythtv/.mythtv','/mythtv/settings');
and I did the same for the channel icons: move them out of the
~/.mythtv/channels to /mythtv/settings/channels, then change the URI for
the icons in mySQL:
UPDATE channel SET icon =
REPLACE(icon,'/home/mythtv/.mythtv','/mythtv/settings');
Just another point: I've seen on this thread a lot of talk about the
lyngsat logos in jpeg format.
For line art drawings, I usually prefer png while resizing them to a
square with the gimp or Photoshop. It looks better with the OSD I use
(VisorOSD).
Claude
Adam Egger a écrit :
On 8/11/05, Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Send whatever you have. Who knows, they may be better than what I've got so
far.
I'll put these up on a webpage shortly. May look into a script to load the
info into the mythconverg database as well. Doing this manually with the UI
is a bit of a pain.
I have two questions regarding icons, too. Can relative paths be used
for the icons? So is there a default directory for icons? I already
tried /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels and a few more folders but it
always doesn't work without an absolute path for every icon.
I'm using transparent png files as channel icons. So I unfortunatelly
still can see the channel name in the EPG view (mythepg) below the png
files (in the upper left corner). How can I disable the channel name
and only display the icon in the epg view?
Adam
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