[mythtv] extremly slow mythfilldatabase in 0.28

[Torbjorn Jansson]

On 2016-07-16 11:12, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 16/07/16 07:46, Torbjorn Jansson wrote:
>> On 2016-07-16 02:25, Roger Siddons wrote:
>>> On 14/07/16 22:05, Torbjorn Jansson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> also when i moved to 0.28 a while back the mythtv-setup was also
>>>> extremely slow at opening one of the settings screens.
>>>> i think it was the input connections screen but dont remeber exactly.
>>>> what seemed to happen was that mythtv-setup was trying to connect to
>>>> each and every upnp enabled device on my local lan for no good reason.
>>>>
>>>> at first i thought something was wrong since there were no ui feeback,
>>>> just a lockup then a few minutes later the settings screen opened.
>>>>
>>>
>>> IIUC it's scanning for VBoxes (Virgin cable box).
>>> It's been mentioned before but TTBOMK nothing has been done yet.
>>>
>>
>> yes it did say vbox and i could not understand why it would try to
>> connect to upnp devices on the local lan.
>> especially since i had not configured any vbox sources.
>>
>
> It's actually trying to discover any VBoxes which are DVB receiver IP
> streamers (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VBox)  which announce themselves
> on the network using upnp.
>
> I've been sent another couple of demo boxes to try out so will be
> returning to the VBox support in the near future and will see if I can
> rework the auto discovery to not block for 3 seconds or whatever the
> delay is.
>

a way to turn off vbox support completely would be nice.
for example a configure option or similar.
perhaps there already is and i haven't noticed?