[mythtv-users] UI feedback in 0.22

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Oct 15 20:28:05 UTC 2009


On 10/15/2009 03:32 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:31:44AM -0700, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> On 10/15/2009 06:22 AM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Preview generation is a separate issue (btw, thanks mdean for the
>>>> r22456 commit!).
>>>>         
>>> Are you using trunk or 0.22-fixes branch?  Have you actually noticed a
>>> difference in behavior with/without the patch (when the frontend
>>> re-creates a preview image--i.e. after exiting playback and setting a
>>> bookmark with the "Generate preview image from a bookmark if possible")?
>>>
>>> If I can get testimonial that it changes behavior/fixes the delay, I'd
>>> be willing to backport the change to 0.22-fixes.  I'm currently waiting,
>>> though, because I have no way to test the effects on my current setup,
>>> so my testing will have to wait for some system changes I have planned.
>> I'm running trunk.  Before updating to r22456, with a version at most
>> 2 days out of date, I removed all png files and observed a
>> several-second UI freeze when the lowly ION first generated a preview
>> image.  Then I updated and tried the same test.  Now, I can still move
>>     
>     I've seen this delay in generating preview images in pretty much
> all of my systems regardless of what sort of hardware they're running
> on. My version of trunk is older but not much.
>   

The mentioned change is in the 0.22-fixes branch as of r22483, so feel 
free to update to current trunk of 0.22-fixes and see if it improves.

Oh, and apologies to Jim, whom I meant to thank for the testing/feedback 
on the commit message for [22483].

Mike


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