[mythtv-users] Does 0.20 take a beefier machine?

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 09 October 2006 4:29 pm, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Chris Moewes-Bystrom wrote:
> > When entering into the recordings and the music menus the system has
> > to execute some SQL to get the information to display before it can
> > even start to display it. Is it possible that is causing some of the
> > delay? I wonder if you could do something like turning on mysql query
> > caching to see if accessing the same menu twice is faster the second
> > time (assuming that the query can be cached).
>
> Caching may improve the response time, but it won't change the fact
> that it's bad UI design to have a menu freeze up while the computer
> is busy without giving any indication as to what is happening.  A
> better solution would be to have the "Watch Recordings" menu item
> progress directly to the "select a recording to watch" screen
> before executing the SQL query.  That screen could then present a
> "Loading..." overlay (similar to that used when MythVideo is
> downloading meta-data from IMDB) if further status feedback is
> warranted.

Part of the mythui work.

Isaac