[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #7743: Selecting Program Guide from menu in Live TV intermittently locks up UI
Paul Harrison
mythtv at sky.com
Thu Feb 18 17:52:12 UTC 2010
Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/17/2010 01:52 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/16/2010 08:35 PM, MythTV wrote:
>>>
>>>> #7743: Selecting Program Guide from menu in Live TV intermittently
>>>> locks
>>>> up UI
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Reporter: anonymous | Owner: markk
>>>> Type: defect | Status:
>>>> infoneeded
>>>> Priority: minor | Milestone: 0.23
>>>> Component: MythTV - User Interface Library | Version: 0.22
>>>> Severity: medium | Mlocked: 0
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Comment(by Bob Shanteau<rmshant@…>):
>>>>
>>>> I finally discovered that MythTV was simply taking a very long
>>>> time to
>>>> show the Program Guide, but if I waited long enough (sometimes
>>>> several
>>>> minutes), it would work.
>>>>
>>>> Since upgrading to 0.23 via the MythDora 12.23 Beta, the Program
>>>> Guide
>>>> now
>>>> comes up right away.
>>>>
>>> FWIW, slow appearance of (and navigation in) the EPG is almost
>>> always due to
>>> channel icon issues--such as missing channel icons that the database
>>> claims
>>> exist or channel icons stuck into a directory to which MythTV apps
>>> don't
>>> have permissions.
>>>
>> If I don't need / want channel icons - how can I make sure my system
>> isn't lagging on attempting to display them ?
>>
>
> Don't tell the system that icons exist in locations where they don't
> exist (or aren't accessible). :)
>
> The icon should be set to "none" where there is, er, none.
>
> Mike
There is a setting to not show the icons in the guide (TV
Settings->Program Guide->Display the channel icons). If you uncheck that
then the guide wont even try to load the icons.
Paul H.
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