[mythtv-users] Browsing Program Guide is Slow in CVS

[James Armstrong]

>>> I've moved over to CVS lately and it has been helpful correcting my 
>>> problems.  I'm currently running 0.16.20041115-1  However, there's 
>>> one problem is has introduced.  The program guide is very slow to 
>>> browse.  Everytime I hit page up or page down it takes about 10 
>>> seconds to update.  Once the data's on the screen, I can browse it 
>>> with the arrow keys at the expected speed, until I go off the "edge" 
>>> and then it takes about 3 seconds to load each new channel.
>>> It's interesting because I can flip through browse mode as quick as 
>>> I can press the buttons.  It only takes 4 seconds to initially open 
>>> the guide with data, compared to the 10 seconds it takes for a page 
>>> up or page down.
>>> Any insight into this?
>>>
>> I had this problem a few weeks ago. It would pause everytime I paged 
>> down or up. I looked at the backend logs and it would try 5 times 
>> with a second or so between attempts to load the channel icon if it 
>> could not access it. I had lost my channel icons when I upgraded to 
>> fc2 and changed drives but the database still had channel icons 
>> assigned for about half my channels. Myth will pause / try 5 times to 
>> load an icon even if it does not exist. I don't know why it just 
>> fails the first time when it cannot open the channel icon jpg. I 
>> found the icons on my Misterhouse setup and put them in the channels 
>> directory in the mythtv home directory and it works great now. If 
>> this is your problem you can clear out the channel icon settings in 
>> your database, download the channel icons, or try to fix the code to 
>> not try so many times to load the channel icon if it does not exist.
>
>
> Thanks, this sure seems to be my problem .  
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels is empty.  And I know they were there 
> before I upgraded.   I re-ran
>
> $ mkiconmap.pl
> $ mythfilldatabase --import-icon-map iconmap.xml --update-icon-map
>
> That's all the docs say to do, but the directory is still empty.  
> What's supposed to grab the .jpg's?  Did I miss a step?
> Rob
>
That is the same thing I tried and had the same problem of no icons 
getting updated. I just happened to find another program I used that had 
downloaded the icons from the same zap2it source and had the same jpg 
filenames so I used them.

- James