[mythtv-users] fanart question

[Brian Long]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:00 AM, David Herman <dherman516 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Herman <dherman516 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> > Attached the directory ~/.mythtv/themecache in dirlist.txt
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>>> > Dave
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>>> Strange stuff, it's definitely getting cached, can't say why it's so
>>> slow for you-- very slow processor/little RAM, perhaps?  Graphite is
>>> definitely not for slow systems :)
>>>
>>> Robert
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>> Machine: 2.6 Ghz AMD X2; 2GB Ram, 9600GSO w/ 1gig ram
>> Videos stored remotely on a Dlink NAS (321) -- mounted via Samba
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>> You are Correct as it is caching.. I just spent the last few minutes
>> (painfully) scrolling through each and every one of the movies I have stored
>> (when it is not cached it is between 5 and 20 seconds to copy the files,
>> rescale and render per video -- I have 300+). I then exited myth, started up
>> again, and behold! it was quick (for the ones I looked at prior). I would
>> assume my dismay is due to keeping current with trunk (in the last 2 weeks,
>> I have had to reselect my theme multiple times to get it to accept all the
>> changes coming through, and I guess it must have killed my cache. To further
>> complicate it, I have 3 frontends, each needing to go through the same steps
>> -- So the pain from one moves to the next (but the problem is solved on the
>> last frontend I was on)
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Dumb user question, but is there a way to scale all the fanart from the
command-line?  If I upgrade to 0.22 when it's released, it would be nice to
run some command to prescale the fanart without having to scroll
individually through 300+ videos.  It would also be nice if a script could
detect the appropriate theme and run in the background any time a theme is
changed.  If a user changes from Terra to Graphite, maybe an at job "now +
10 minutes" could be setup to prescale everything.  If someone changes the
theme back to Terra before the 10 minutes is up, the at job would be
canceled.

Just some random ideas, I understand it's too late for 0.22.  :)

/Brian/
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