[mythtv-users] Shield frontend "light"

[Tom Harris]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:37 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 12/20/20 12:10 AM, Tom Harris wrote:
> > My primary frontend is the shield mythfrontend app (Thank you Peter
> > Bennett).
> >
> > I'm very happy with it, but one thing that could be optimized a bit is
> > startup time.  In my previous x86 frontends I built with only the
> > features I used - which for me is just viewing recordings.  I'm not
> > really sure how much difference that makes, so I'm looking for input
> > on whether it's worth the effort to set up a cross-compile environment
> > to build the frontend.  Does a "light" build make a meaningful
> > difference in startup time or other resource utilization?
> >
> Mythfrontend startup time is slow on any system, both linux and android.
> I don't know of any way to speed it up.
> > Also, I do know the leanfront app is effectively a lightweight Myth
> > Frontend, and I use that sometimes.  But, I still end up using
> > mythfrontend much of the time for the incredibly fast skip-ahead
> > performance skipping over commercials.
> >
> >
> leanfront does not use the seek table, so that is part of the reason it
> is slower. However, some UK recordings seem to be much slower than US
> recordings at skipping. My US recordings skip in a second or two, but
> some UK samples take up to 15 seconds to skip. What recordings are you
> using and how slow is your skip time? I may look into why the UK
> recordings have such a slow skip time if there are affected users.


 I'm in the US, and the performance is good.  A skip ahead on my Nvidia
Shield is about 1 second.  It's better than most other media player players
I've tried.

So, it's not that leanfront is slow, it's just that mythfrontend is
incredibly fast.  A skip ahead just jumps 30s ahead with almost no
perceptible interruption.  When watching something like an NFL football
game I'm constantly skipping ahead between plays and past commercials and
the quick skips are really nice.
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