[mythtv] Annoyance/Suggestion with thumbnails display on recording in progress

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/25/2006 05:45 PM, gad at jetcom.org wrote:
> Now I know that a lot of work has gone into "fixing" the thumbnail 
> display on the frontend, but I have to think that it could be better 
> than it is.
>
> Especially on a remote frontend, it's very annoying to try to scroll 
> through the listing while there is a recording or two(or more) in 
> progress. For each item, it tries to get the png from the backend, 
> which hasn't been created yet, so then the backend goes and very nicely 
> creates the png, and refreshes the screen.  This process works great 
> now, but takes a long time, especially if this isn't even the recording 
> that you wanted to watch. So then you wait again.
>
> Wouldn't it be more efficient to either: 1) realize that the recording 
> is in progress, and the png most likely isn't created yet and skip the 
> thumbnail.. and when the recording finishes it nicely refreshes like it 
> does in other cases.
>
> Or
>
> 2) Try once to get the image, let the backend do it's thing and create 
> it.. but don't wait for it, or try 12 times to get the image.
>
> If there is no image available now, lets jsut put nothing up. This 
> makes sense to me, and would greatly improve the useability of the FE, 
> especially when scrolling through multiple recordings in progress.
>
> Any comments/suggestions?

IIRC, this is where Daniel was going with all these fixes, but he didn't 
have time to complete it before 0.19.  So, my suggestion is either a) 
patience or b) patches.

Mike