[mythtv-users] Shield frontend "light"

[Peter Bennett]

On 12/20/20 12:10 AM, Tom Harris wrote:
> My primary frontend is the shield mythfrontend app (Thank you Peter 
> Bennett).
>
> I'm very happy with it, but one thing that could be optimized a bit is 
> startup time.  In my previous x86 frontends I built with only the 
> features I used - which for me is just viewing recordings.  I'm not 
> really sure how much difference that makes, so I'm looking for input 
> on whether it's worth the effort to set up a cross-compile environment 
> to build the frontend.  Does a "light" build make a meaningful 
> difference in startup time or other resource utilization?
>
Mythfrontend startup time is slow on any system, both linux and android. 
I don't know of any way to speed it up.
> Also, I do know the leanfront app is effectively a lightweight Myth 
> Frontend, and I use that sometimes.  But, I still end up using 
> mythfrontend much of the time for the incredibly fast skip-ahead 
> performance skipping over commercials.
>
>
leanfront does not use the seek table, so that is part of the reason it 
is slower. However, some UK recordings seem to be much slower than US 
recordings at skipping. My US recordings skip in a second or two, but 
some UK samples take up to 15 seconds to skip. What recordings are you 
using and how slow is your skip time? I may look into why the UK 
recordings have such a slow skip time if there are affected users.

Peter