[mythtv-users] Graphite theme slow in "Watch Recordings"

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Oct 8 17:07:44 UTC 2009


On 10/08/2009 10:17 AM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> I see something similar, except that for me, Graphite and mythbuntu
> are slow, and metallurgy and blue-abstract are fast, when moving
> between recorded programs.  It doesn't matter whether I use the QT or
> OpenGL painter.
>
> I watched the output of "top" while this was happening on the slow
> themes.  Each time I moved to a different recording, the mythbackend
> process would pop up.  I think it's being used to regenerate a preview
> image for the recording, and apparently it's either not caching the
> preview image, or not recognizing that the preview image is already
> cached.

Chances are you need to fix your system clocks.  Look for the big 
warning about differing times in your frontend log file.

Mike


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