[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #7743: Selecting Program Guide from menu in Live TV intermittently locks up UI

[Paul Harrison]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/17/2010 01:52 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   
>>> On 02/16/2010 08:35 PM, MythTV wrote:
>>>     
>>>> #7743: Selecting Program Guide from menu in Live TV intermittently
>>>> locks
>>>> up UI
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>   Reporter:  anonymous                        |       Owner:  markk
>>>>       Type:  defect                           |      Status: 
>>>> infoneeded
>>>>   Priority:  minor                            |   Milestone:  0.23
>>>> Component:  MythTV - User Interface Library  |     Version:  0.22
>>>>   Severity:  medium                           |     Mlocked:  0
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Comment(by Bob Shanteau<rmshant@…>):
>>>>
>>>>   I finally discovered that MythTV was simply taking a very long
>>>> time to
>>>>   show the Program Guide, but if I waited long enough (sometimes
>>>> several
>>>>   minutes), it would work.
>>>>
>>>>   Since upgrading to 0.23 via the MythDora 12.23 Beta, the Program
>>>> Guide
>>>> now
>>>>   comes up right away.
>>>>        
>>> FWIW, slow appearance of (and navigation in) the EPG is almost
>>> always due to
>>> channel icon issues--such as missing channel icons that the database
>>> claims
>>> exist or channel icons stuck into a directory to which MythTV apps
>>> don't
>>> have permissions.
>>>      
>> If I don't need / want channel icons - how can I make sure my system
>> isn't lagging on attempting to display them ?
>>    
>
> Don't tell the system that icons exist in locations where they don't
> exist (or aren't accessible).  :)
>
> The icon should be set to "none" where there is, er, none.
>
> Mike

There is a setting to not show the icons in the guide  (TV
Settings->Program Guide->Display the channel icons). If you uncheck that
then the guide wont  even try to load the icons.

Paul H.