Idea: Port LogoManager into common library and use it inside MP2-Server plugin (3 Viewers)

[azzuro]

The current online logo DB will be cleared again. If you want to add an logo now, you are free to do so -> the current state is so we can test everything, find bugs and missing features or wrong implementations/database models.
It is also not supposed to be full done and working, I published the current Work In Progress state.

i know offbyone ... was for test only. and try to test the importer function ...

 

[Edalex]

I do not want to rush ahead and therefore ask again: should I upload new Logos the old way (LogoMapping.xml) or with the new website? I have a major update of the switzerland package.

MP1 - LogoMapping.xml for now until new db will be fully tested since MP1 doesn't support new website
MP2 - only new DB

 

[morpheus_xx]

I just installed an interim snapshot on my HTPC and tried the new LogoManager based SlimTv.Resources plugin. It's damn great, so simple but powerful

How we are proceding with the other repositories, when do we migrate the contents to new repo? It would be good to have not only the German but also others available when I release 10AE_Update2 test build.

It will improve the MP2 experience even further

 

[breese]

Where do I get the Logo's and what size do they need to be?
I think I figured out that the Naming requirement on the Web Page needs to match what the EPG / Schedules Direct name for the channel needs to be.

 

[offbyone]

Open Questions for Discussion from my side are:

How do we use the Provider that I now import for an Alias?
How do the final Webservice methods look like? (plus: do they take the provider info as param now?)
Do we allow more than one logo per channel? (one aspect ratio wide, one square,...)
How does conflict resolution work? (With only the German channels there's probaly no conflicts, but once we imported all, and you call the service without a matching region...you'll get multiple results)

I'll update the Website again later, with the Provider-Importing and will then try to import all mapping files that were linked earlier. I'll add a new page where you can then query for an logo by Alias and it will show all results, so we can think about how to handle that.

 

[Edalex]

Also you should ask guys who maintained differen repos if they like logos uploading process and if they have suggestions how to make it more comfortable for them since all this stuff is useless without such enthusiasts.
@vuego @bribbon @Lbr_Lion @Jasmeet_181 are some of them

 

[morpheus_xx]

How do we use the Provider that I now import for an Alias?

For my understanding it is more used for "administrative" work and is not so important on client side. So I wouldn't consider it in "fetching" API calls directly.

Do we allow more than one logo per channel? (one aspect ratio wide, one square,...)

Good question, I have no clear answer: even if I currently don't need more than the simple logo, I cannot say we won't need it in future. So maybe postpone a decision for this to later point (also existing repos only have one logo per channel).

How does conflict resolution work? (With only the German channels there's probaly no conflicts, but once we imported all, and you call the service without a matching region...you'll get multiple results)

This remembers me to extend the client downloader to pass the proper region of MP2 to the API. What to return without region? If nothing better, FirstOrDefault().

I'll update the Website again later, with the Provider-Importing and will then try to import all mapping files that were linked earlier. I'll add a new page where you can then query for an logo by Alias and it will show all results, so we can think about how to handle that.

 

[morpheus_xx]

@offbyone, quick question: I've added the region as argument to public methods: https://github.com/morpheusxx/Media...mmit/23518133630d5084123d6f0f6cda6b694e9e44ef

What can I use there? The "de-de", "de-ch" format, or only "de", "at", "ch"?

 

[offbyone]

Since we needed country codes, I decided to use ISO 3166 (alpha2) - two letter codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

.Net doesn't directly give them openly, but here's an explanation:
http://justinchronicles.wordpress.c...ined-in-iso-3166-1-programatically-by-c-shar/

So in your "de-ch" sample it would be the CH part. (uppercase!)

 

[breese]

since all this stuff is useless without such enthusiasts.

I asked the basic question about Logo's on the MP1 at
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/united-states-tv-logos-chiago.126608/#post-1088929
@Jasmeet_181 Gave me a link to his Google Code
https://code.google.com/p/mediaportal-us-logos/
Very Impressive!