[mythtv-users] Slow guide in LiveTV

Ismo Tanskanen ismot at telemail.fi
Fri Jan 2 19:28:26 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Rob Rosenfeld
<rob+mythtv-users> wrote:
>  On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Jelle De Loecker <skerit> 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> 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.
>

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/95696


I had this problem, too. I solved switching from xvmc de-interlacer to 
greedy2x or yadif2x.

- Kane


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