[mythtv] wanted: developers that use mythfilldatabase

[Mark Kendall]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 23:35, Hans Dingemans <jpldingemans at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> First of all big thanks to all of you for this great software; I have been using Mythtv for years, very happy with it!!! However, as an enthusiastic open-source developer I always seek possibilities to improve and to contribute.
>
> Apart from my production server I now am experimenting with frontend + backend on a Raspberry Pi, trying to get it so far that it can play HLS streams from websites like https://watchnewslive.tv .
> A problem I encountered is that when trying to load the EPG for all those stations, mythfilldatabase uses too much memory and freezes up the (4Gb-version of the) Pi.
> Turns out that the entire xml-file is kept in memory multiple times. I made a patch which reduces memory usage 6 times.

I don't have a need for mythfilldatabase via xml - but I'm assuming
you are referring to the patches in this pull request? :-

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/189

Regards
Mark