[mythtv] [PATCH] better playbackbox interactivity

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Dec 17 16:29:03 EST 2003


On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:21 am, Jason Rosson wrote:
> Attached is a patch to speed up the playbackbox
> interactivity when using a theme which has the
> program status icons used (the ones in the bottom
> left corner on GANT).  Instead of making 5 different
> calls to the db for each flag it makes one.

This looks good, but..

> I had another version of this same idea where i cached
> all program flags upon entering the playbackbox
> and so was even faster as there were no db hits at
> all.

an even better way to do it would be to make the main query on the backend 
gather this information and transmit it along with the rest of the recorded 
program info, so there would be no db queries on the frontend at all =)

Isaac


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