[mythtv-users] Slow guide in LiveTV

Rob Rosenfeld rob+mythtv-users at rosenfeld.to
Fri Jan 2 14:14:09 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Rob Rosenfeld
<rob+mythtv-users at rosenfeld.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Jelle De Loecker <skerit at kipdola.com> wrote:
>> Op donderdag 01-01-2009 om 13:47 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Rob
>> Rosenfeld:
>>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Joe Borne <joe.borne at gmail.com> 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?
>>> >
>>>
>>> In the past I've had two different issues that slowed down my guide.
>>> One was missing icons.  If the guide thought the icons should be
>>> there, but they weren't, it was really slow.  It would be slow anytime
>>> the guide was opened or I paged up or down.  The other was the
>>> database was running with insufficient resources, particularly memory.
>>>  In that case everything else except the guide and the program finder
>>> in MythTV ran smooth, but the guide was slow to change as I paged up
>>> or down.
>>
>> I have had all of these problems (channel icons, memory, playback
>> profile, ...) and have fixed them all, but the guide is still painfully
>> slow on my box.
>>
>> I've deleted all the channel icons, increased the memory, rarely use the
>> guide in livetv (always the regular one in the menu) but it's still slow
>> as hell.
>>
>
> Well the icon fix for me wasn't to delete them, but to add the missing
> ones.  Maybe by delete you mean also removing any database reference
> to their existence.
>
> Here's an old post about it.
>

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