[mythtv] Preview images from a bookmark

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Apr 7 21:12:30 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 23:24 +0300, Otto Kolsi wrote:
> I have a slow backend and I've disabled the live preview of recordings. 
> I have "Generate thumbnail preview images of recordings" setting enabled 
>   and "Generate preview image from a bookmark if possible" disabled.
> 
> If I understand these correctly, Myth should not create new preview 
> image from the bookmark because I have it explicitly disabled? With SVN 
> 9645, the preview image is being updated every time after making a 
> bookmark and exiting from the playback back to recordings.
> 
> This is mainly cosmetic issue, but because of the slow backend, each 
> preview creation takes 1-3 seconds. And during that time frontend stops 
> responding or slows down.
> 
> Is this a bug or have I misunderstood the settings?

Can you try SVN and tell me if 
 1/ this is still a problem
 2/ if it is a problem, what is the text following
    "Starting preview generator " in the "mythfrontend -v playback" log.

-- Daniel



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