[mythtv-users] Slow guide in LiveTV

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jan 1 17:16:09 UTC 2009


On Thursday 01 January 2009 10:13:33 Joe Borne wrote:
> I've been having problems with my guide when I'm watching LiveTV. I was on
> Fedora 9 with MythTV .20 and recently switched to Mythbuntu 8.10 with 0.21.
>
> I have my system set up to bring up the guide as soon as I go into Live TV.
> But the guide's performance is abominably slow. I can scroll through 4 or 5
> channels and then it locks up. After about 2 or 3 minutes it unlocks. Any
> keys pressed while the system is locked are then executed in rapid
> succession. I've tried switching to guide options that require the lowest
> CPU power, but no change.
>
> When I was on Fedora, this was never a problem and I ran the highest CPU
> demand guide options with lightning quick response.
>
> Can anyone advise me what the problem might be?

I had a similar problem, which went away when I switched to the "slim" 
playback profile.

Can't say that this will help you, but give it a go, it solved things for me.


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