Color Catagories

[jeremyrem]

For my kodi setup it uses genre's name to look for an image file to use as an overlay.

But my theme lets me do that for more customization, without it, kodi converts the genre into a digit and it looks for a image with that as the name

[Epg Admin]

Do you have to do something manually or is it automatic?
What skin do you use if it's automatic?

Can you explain this in a bit more detail?

[jeremyrem]

[Epg Admin]

Cool!
Thanks!

[jeremyrem]

[Kick4U]

[Epg Admin]

You know that every channel provides different categories how they like IF they even provide categories and even if we would run looping scripts on all 7500+ channels with their 7000 different categories to make them conform, there are channels from over 100 countries with almost as many different languages, right?

Alone the creating of the changing script would make too much work and running it would need processing time and power, which is not worth it.

To be honest, you can smear your ETSI standards into your hair.

Unfortunately we have to develop this service so that everybody with every language and geographical location can use it equally.

[jeremyrem]

[Epg Admin]

It doesn't matter how we wind it, the point is, that it has to be happening in the client software and not in the xml file, nor in our editor.

The IPTV app has to find a way to interpret the categories not the other way around.
We are still not an XML editor and still not responsible for inventing workarounds for other developers' mistakes and laziness.

We have ideas how to achieve this in our apps, but that won't be a universal solution.

We will add this to our apps for sure, because I like the idea too.
Although our apps already tell you the category of the actual show, next to all the other important information like episode numbers and actor names etc., so it is not really needed. It would just look good.

[jeremyrem]

yea the main issue for most is its not implemented at all and for those that it is implemented on its either full support or something half baked.

I originally thought this was to just get it working in Kodi though and thats what I was focusing on since the caterogy has to be unified for it to properly ident it and it does not support the /, it will only use the first word/group before a /

But I understand the universal usage you are trying to go for and there really is no way to determine which software people use and if/how it supports categories.