[mythtv] wanted: developers that use mythfilldatabase

Hans Dingemans jpldingemans at gmail.com
Sun Feb 9 10:31:58 UTC 2020


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> On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 23:35, Hans Dingemans <jpldingemans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
That is correct !

>
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