[mythtv-users] mythfrontend hangs while preview image is being created in Watch Recordings screen

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Mar 20 17:35:52 UTC 2009


On 03/20/2009 09:52 AM, Thomas Börkel wrote:
> I have enabled preview images for the "Watch Recorings" screen. I have
> set the time from where to create the images to 600 (would like to have
> 720 here).
>
> This 600 may be the cause, why it takes a while to create the image when
> I first navigate to a recording that does not yet have a preview image.
>
> But why does mythfrontend hang while waiting for the preview image?
> Shouldn't that be asynchronous happening in the background?

Yep, and with your patch, it will be.  :)  Make sure you talk to Stuart 
Morgan in IRC as he has a plan for how it should be done.

Mike


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