[mythtv-users] How to get rid of slow and fancy menu fade in/out effects

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/14/2008 10:40 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:21:56AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 03/14/2008 02:15 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>>     
>>> At the top level menu, and also in mythtv-setup, there is some fancy fade in
>>> display that took 1 sec in 640x480 and now takes around 5sec in 1920x1080p.
>>> It's really unbearable when I run mythtv-setup over ssh forward. It can take
>>> 30-60 seconds to display the top menu items.
>>>
>>> I tried turning off opengl rendering, but that doesn't seem to be it.
>>>       
>> You need to turn off the OpenGL theme painter (i.e. choose the QT theme 
>> painter) and restart the frontend.
>>     
> Doh, I did do that, but got fooled by the 'regenerating cache' stuff, and
> thought it had restarted the frontend. 
> Clearly, it did not.

Thus the help text ;)

Paint Engine
 - Qt
 - OpenGL
This selects what MythTV uses to draw.  If you have decent hardware, 
select OpenGL. Changing this requires a restart.

It is easy to miss, but just a reminder for all that the help text has 
some really good info in it.

Mike