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<blockquote data-quote="knutinh" data-source="post: 62981" data-attributes="member: 14776">Hmm. My basic idea is &quot;forcing&quot; the user to select a channel name that has a logic value connected to it instead of a text string that only mean something to humans. &quot;MTV&quot;, &quot;Mtv&quot;, &quot;mtv&quot;, &quot;Music Television&quot; etc all mean the same thing. But selecting &quot;MTV&quot; from a menu means that MediaPortal &quot;knowns&quot; what you mean. When I run WebEPG I have to manually find a text-string that I decide should be MTV. I cant see that it is impossible to have a small xml file describing, say, 1000 pre-defined MP channel names, and what grabber to use for each, possibly as a function of country. There could be a non-MP robot that has an .xml file with 1000 (MP-defined) channel names and corresponding file-names at lyngsat that would automatically download the needed channels into thumbs\tv directory. Or there could be a &quot;MP thumbs&quot; zipfile circulating on P2P that contained 1000 zipped channel icons named according to the MP convention. Copying those files directly into thumbs\tv should also work.I dont know what can be done and cant be done with this, or if it is hard to implement. But forcing the user to format this data cant be that hard to implement, it is a matter of defining some channel names in an xml file and changing the setup application where you rename channels to also feature a dropdown menu selecting among the names present in the xml file. Every other aspect of MP could be untouched if and until some clever guy finds a use for that information.regardsKnut</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knutinh, post: 62981, member: 14776"] Hmm. My basic idea is "forcing" the user to select a channel name that has a logic value connected to it instead of a text string that only mean something to humans. "MTV", "Mtv", "mtv", "Music Television" etc all mean the same thing. But selecting "MTV" from a menu means that MediaPortal "knowns" what you mean. When I run WebEPG I have to manually find a text-string that I decide should be MTV. I cant see that it is impossible to have a small xml file describing, say, 1000 pre-defined MP channel names, and what grabber to use for each, possibly as a function of country. There could be a non-MP robot that has an .xml file with 1000 (MP-defined) channel names and corresponding file-names at lyngsat that would automatically download the needed channels into thumbs\tv directory. Or there could be a "MP thumbs" zipfile circulating on P2P that contained 1000 zipped channel icons named according to the MP convention. Copying those files directly into thumbs\tv should also work. I dont know what can be done and cant be done with this, or if it is hard to implement. But forcing the user to format this data cant be that hard to implement, it is a matter of defining some channel names in an xml file and changing the setup application where you rename channels to also feature a dropdown menu selecting among the names present in the xml file. Every other aspect of MP could be untouched if and until some clever guy finds a use for that information. regards Knut [/QUOTE]

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