My Channel Logos Tutorial
As the Windows 7 has started to enter the doors of people across the world, it’s probably a good idea to create a quick tutorial for how to use My Channel Logos.
- Note the system requirements:
- You must have a TV Tuner installed, and have gone through Live TV Setup.
- MCL will only work with native guide data, not XML sources.
- MCL will only work on Windows 7 32 and 64 bit.
- After downloading, extract the installer from the zip file. (Right click on the zip file> Click “Extract All”.)
- Double click on the extracted Installer and Install MCL by clicking “Next” twice. Your computer may ask you for user account control, click Yes.
- After Installation is complete, go to Start> All Programs> My Channel Logos> My Channel Logos to begin MCL. The first time you run MCL, all of the logos for your region will download, as shown below. This may take a few minutes. Logos are currently available for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France, New Zealand.
- You may also find logo packaged made by other media center enthusiasts from your country. Search around the internet.
- After download is complete, you will get a screen that looks like this:
- To automatically add logos to media center, click “Auto Populate Logos.” For information about how autopopulate works, see the FAQ page.
- To manually assign a logo to a channel,
- Find the channel on the Merged Channel List on the left side and click on it. You may either add logos to channels in the “Channels without Logos” list, or change assigned logos in the “Channels with Logos” list.
- Once the channel is selected, click on the dark navy blue box on the top right side of the program. This will open up a file explorer.
- Find the logo you would like to assign on your computer. Then click “Open”. Red text will show that the Channel Logo was added successfully.
- Close and reopen media center.
- Enjoy your new logos!
