[mythtv] NEW MythPlugin functionality (PATCH)

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:49 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> I'm interested in feedback as to whether people think this would be
> useful.  Foremost in my mind is how this might be applicable to
> mythmusic.  Since the plugin is only initialized when it's first loaded,
> and never unloaded (unless you explicitly do that somewhere) while
> mythfrontend (or whatever the enclosing application is) is still
> running, you could reduce the startup overhead for a module.  For
> instance, mythmusic would only have to load the database the first time
> it came up.  After that, if you exited mythmusic and went back in,
> everything is still in memory.  As soon as I get some time I'm going to
> try this.

Is the startup time of mythmusic still that much of an issue, what with all 
the recent improvements Thor's made to it?  And, with large music 
collections, I wouldn't think you would want to keep all that metadata in ram 
at all times..  

That aside, looks interesting =)  I'm just a little hesitant to apply it 
without there being an actual use for it yet, though.

Isaac