[mythtv-users] Channel guide is way too slow

[Rob Rosenfeld]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Jelle De Loecker wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> So I have +/- 2500 channels in my channel list, the perks of using
>> satellite television.
>>
>> When I try to open the guide it takes about 50 seconds for it to load.
>> "Browsing" in this lists takes a while, too. When I press up or down
>> it
>> can sometimes take a few seconds.
>>
>> This is what happens on my dual core system, so you can imagine what
>> happens on my poor, little Apple TV! (running Mythbuntu)
>>
>> Once I've tried to "hide" most of the channels in the channels table.
>> (Nearly all, I only had 20 channels left) but that didn't do much
>> for my
>> Apple TV frontend: it was still browsing WAY too slow.
>>
>> I've read that disabling channel icons can help, but it really didn't.
>>
>> Mind you, I'm NOT even talking about the guide in live tv. I'm talking
>> about the regular kind, the one you can get to in the menu.
>>
>> I'm using the trunk of mythtv, btw.
>
> Missing icons can make for a VERY slow guide as it tries to find each
> one to display (and fails). Are you seeing channel icons?

A database server with insufficient resources will also make guide very slow.


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