<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 06/15/2006 04:14 PM, Ryan Steffes wrote:<br>> > What's noticeable mean to you? One or two seconds, or 5 seconds,<br>> > or 10 seconds, or ...<br>><br>> Average, 20 to 30 seconds, sometimes over minute.
<br><br>That's definitely not the in-memory sort. I never had that kind of<br>issue when I was using mine without it (actually, the difference from<br>the in-memory sort is not very noticeable).<br><br>> It only does this
<br>> the first time I go into MythVideo, then seems faster until I haven't<br>> gone in a while, then pauses again. I'm assuming it has to do with<br>> disk access.<br><br>Hmmm... Idea (see below).<br><br>> I also get a similarly long delay when going into My
<br>> Recordings but I always blamed this on building previews, since it<br>> stutters (for lack of a better word) when flipping past a newly<br>> recorded show.<br><br>That shouldn't be preview generation. It doesn't build them all before
<br>showing Watch/Delete Recordings. (We are talking about mythfrontend<br>here, right, and not MythWeb?)<br><br>> > Make sure you disable the setting:<br>> ><br>> > Video List browses files If set, this will cause the Video List
<br>> > screen to show all relevant files below the MythVideo starting<br>> > directory whether they have been scanned or not.<br>> ><br>> > for the test. Note, also, that there's an equivalent setting for
<br>> > the other 3 views.<br>><br>> I do have this on, because during the transition from DVDs to avis, I<br>> occasionally just stuck a ripped vob in there and transcoded it<br>> later. I'll try with it off, and see if there is a difference.
<br><br>If you have that on an have:<br><br>Video List Loads Video Meta Data<br>If set along with Browse Files, this will cause the Video List to load<br>any known video metadata from the database. Turning this off can<br>
greatly speed up how long it takes to load the Video List tree<br><br>on that could cause the delay you're seeing.<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br>This did it. Either loading the info from the DB or loading the movie posters is responsible for the delay. Turning off that option made the vides load instantly. I suppose now I can focus on why I seem to be getting such terrible disk performance.
<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Ryan<br>