[mythtv-users] Babelbox: A potentially useful new low-cost frontend?

[Robert Johnston]

On 8/15/06, Luke Rosenthal <mythtv at harderstuff.net> wrote:
> While we're on the topic of Myth on Xbox running slowly, how slow is
> slowly?  Can the Xbox have more ram installed?

I've got an XBox here running MythFrontend on Xebian 1.1.4, and it
runs just fine.

Admittedly, it's using the QT painter (As the driver doesn't support
OpenGL) which makes it a fair bit slower, but once it's got enough of
a buffer streaming the video from the backend (Which takes around a
second at the beginning of the file) you can play and seek around as
if it were local. It's not quite as fast as the local frontend on my
backend box, but it's close. The major delays are caused by heavy
network traffic (Opening "Recorded programs" (1.5 sec) or MythVideo (3
sec) are the main problem areas, and MythVideo I use the FileSystem
Gallery view, hence the slowness over the NFS link)

> One more question (sorry, I lurk, and rarely post, so I end up collecting
> related questions in my head, then firing them all off at once) - I have
> Myth front & backend running on a 2gHz P4, 1gb RAM.  Performance when
> moving around in the menus is really sluggish.  It watches livetv fine,
> recordings are fine, even skipping around in the recordings is ok, but
> keypresses on the keyboard take ages to respond.  The worst offender is
> the interface to previous recordings.  It's like mythfrontend is waiting
> for some other input on the keyboard or something.  I haven't gotten
> around to getting the remote working yet (I'm one of those having trouble
> with the DViCO Dual Digital driver).  Any comments?  It's usable, but
> quite slow.

Are you using the OpenGL painter or the QT painter? Is your MySQL box
heavily loaded? Do you have Query Tracing switched on? Have you
enabled DMA in your HDParm config?
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston