[mythtv-users] Slow UI in MythTV SVN

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 5:26 pm, Joel Means wrote:
> Nick wrote:
> > On 05/09/06, Joel Means <jmeans at physics.tamu.edu> wrote:
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> >> I posted this message on the mythtvtalk forum, but I thought I might get
> >> a better response here.
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> >> I am building a new MythTV system. I had originally installed 0.19, but
> >> found out about MythArchive and decided to go ahead and install from
> >> svn. When I did this upgrade, the UI is now very slow to respond. It
> >> takes ~ 1 second to change from one selection to another. Does anyone
> >> know what could be causing this? I am using an EPIA EN12000EG
> >> motherboard with the current Openchrome drivers. All of my prerequisite
> >> software seems fine. I am using QT painter to run the gui, and I have
> >> version 3.3.6 of QT with threads installed. I should also note that I
> >> get the same behavior on an EPIA MII10000 and on an Athlon XP-M 2400+
> >> system on an NVIDIA mobo with ATI 9600 video card, so I don't believe it
> >> is video driver or processor dependent. Any help on this would be
> >> greatly appreciated. My wife will not be very accepting of this system
> >> if the UI is this slow to respond.
> >
> > Does anything change if you run the frontend with:
> >
> > mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=qt
> >
> > (ref http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/213233)
> >
> > Also, do you have XvMC enabled?
> >
> > Nick
>
> Nick,
> Thanks for the reply.  I tried using -O ThemePainter=qt, but it had no
> effect.  (I already had it set to use QT anyway, so it didn't actually
> do anything.)  My video driver doesn't support OpenGL, so I can't try
> that.  I do have XvMC enabled for MPEG2 decoding.  Is there somewhere I
> can tell it to use that for the GUI?  I am willing to try anything
> anyone can suggest.

Does this happen with all of the available themes?

Isaac