[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 142, Issue 6

[Chad Parry]

> On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 03:49:14 -0000, Chad Parry <spam at chad.parry.org  <http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users>> wrote:
>> /I created a pull request more than 6 months ago:
>> //https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/75.  It drastically improves the
>> //start-up time for large slide shows. I also have another pull request
>> //for a separate feature that is blocked on this one. My code conforms to
>> //the standards and just needs someone to merge it. Can someone please
>> //accept it? Thanks!/
>
> The MythGallery plugin is currently deprecated because it uses the old UI.
> The plan is to replace it with the "New Image Gallery" in 0.28 that uses
> the new UI as well as Storage Groups and can support a services API. I'm
> working on this at the moment but haven't yet finalised a version for
> review. Master currently contains a incomplete version that doesn't work
> very well.
>
> Of course, the new Gallery doesn't preclude the continued use of the old
> plugin. However,
> I notice that some of the old UI has been deprecated so it may not
> function if/when that is removed.
>
> A cursory look at your patch suggests that the old plugin took a long time
> to generate thumbnails before starting the slideshow. This isn't an issue
> with the new design as the thumbnails are pre-generated. I haven't seen
> your 2nd pull.
> What issues/features does that address ?
Thanks for the info. I'd be happy to help merge these features into the 
new UI if that would be useful.

The reason I made the first patch is because it took a long time to 
recursively traverse directories and find all the photos. I noticed it 
because I have thousands of NFS-mounted photos. This may still be an 
issue in the new UI, unless there is also fast lookup in the database. 
The issue is exacerbated by my second feature, because it reads EXIF 
data from all the photos during the preparation stage.

The second feature is a "seasonal slideshow," 
(https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12335). It was really fun to have 
enabled at my house over the holidays. It's like the random slideshow, 
except with a much larger weight assigned to photos taken at the same 
time of year. Near Christmas you get more Christmas photos, and near 
birthdays you get more birthday photos.
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