[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.24 OSD Responsiveness

[Andre]

On 19 Nov 2010, at 14:59, dargllun wrote:

> On 19.11.2010 15:48, Andre wrote:
>> 
>> On 19 Nov 2010, at 14:26, Tom Evans wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've just upgraded to MythTV 0.24, running on Mythbuntu 10.04 (64
>>> bit). Overall it's great, but I've noticed that the OSD menus are
>>> quite sluggish, with a good 1/2 second or more delay between
>>> pressing a key and the menu selection updating. Has anyone else
>>> noticed this problem?
>> 
>> Same here and that's on a 1.8Ghz C2D (clocked at 1Ghz) with a 1GB
>> GT220 and 2GB ram so hardware should be plenty fast enough.
> 
> What themes are you guys using? Now that the OSD was consolidated with MythUI, the sames goes for the OSD as with the other UI elements: it is very much dependent on the theme's complexity. Arclight for instance is performing slower then, say, Childish or Mythbuntu.
> 
> Also, with OSD, I would believe that the rendering methods may play a role (xv vs. opengl). The

Arclight with OpenGL here, it's the only theme I like and I've been too lazy to make a start on a theme so far!




> overall tendency seems to be towards opengl, and I think that's what most theme authors use. So if you run on xv, you might try opengl, if that's an option for you. For me it isn't, unfortunately (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9216).
> 
> This is all from my personal observatio -- experts & devs please correct me if I'm spreading FUD here.
> 
> Regards
> d.
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