[mythtv-users] 0.22 MythVideo slow first time cover art displays

[Andrew Barbaccia]

Fair enough.

Thanks everyone! Sorry for not keeping on the -users list (or at least
searching it more thoroughly)

-ajb

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I've been noticing a performance issue with trunk on all my boxes
> including
> > my desktop which is a core 2 duo with 4GB of ram (should be sufficient).
> >
> > The navigation with MythVideo seems to hesitate for ~2 seconds when
> moving
> > between items on occasion. I've narrowed this down to happening only when
> > the metadata has recently been updated. I'm guessing it has something to
> do
> > with image scaling / caching, because after the first initial pause, it
> > doesn't happen again.
> >
> > Is this repeatable for other users?
> >
> > If this is from resolution-specific image caching, can we create an
> option
> > to cache them all in a batch job so that the user experience is smoother?
> Or
> > possibly implement a progress bar and letting the user know what is
> > happening?
> >
> > This will def need some dev input down the road, but I left this off the
> > -dev list for now since I haven't isolated the problem to be beyond my
> setup
> > just yet.
>
> There are a couple of lengthy threads recently discussing this issue
> at length. Check the archives. It is because of the theme specific
> effects being applied and then cached. There currently is no way to
> script it or do it in batch mode. The changes needed to be applied by
> mythUI so it would be challenging to do it outside of mythfrontend. It
> was suggested that this will be improved for .23 but won't likely
> change for .22.
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