[mythtv-users] How to get rid of slow and fancy menu fade in/out effects

[Marc MERLIN]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:03:32AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >  I've not tried,
> > though, as I always had stability problems whenever I enabled it with
> > my old TV, where I was using 800x600. I have noticed that even with
> > the Qt renderer the menus aren't quite as snappy at 1920x1080 as they
> > were at 800x600. Far from unusable; just a titch slower than instant.
> 
> Exactly my results with OpenGL at 1920x1080 on my MX440.  The menu was 
> just slightly slower than at lower resolutions, but probably primarily 
> due to the loading of the larger image sizes (rather than the OpenGL 
> itself).

That's what confused me. I thought the MX440 was actually a fairly decent
card, and that animating a menu was a pretty trivial task compared to
displaying a few hundred thousand shaded polygons for your average 3D game.

The speed I got looked with hw rendering about as fast as when I run
googleearth with software rendering...

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:59:57AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Thus the help text ;)
> 
> Paint Engine
>  - Qt
>  - OpenGL
> This selects what MythTV uses to draw.  If you have decent hardware, 
> select OpenGL. Changing this requires a restart.
> 
> It is easy to miss, but just a reminder for all that the help text has 
> some really good info in it.

I saw that, and still consider my hardware decent for what it was being
asked to do :)

And going back to my mythtv-setup over ssh problem, opengl is just such a
killer there that it makes it unusable. Would there be a way (i.e. can there
be a way) to disable opengl on the command line when you're over a somewhat
slower connection?

Thanks,
Marc
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