[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7843 by danielk

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 12 November 2005 12:00 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 04:04 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 11 November 2005 11:08 am, mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org wrote:
> > > This calls the preview generator at the end of a recording and at
> > > the end of commercial flagging. This should make the recording
> > > browser a little snappier when there are lots of unbrowsed
> > > recordings.
> >
> > This isn't quite right - the backend shouldn't be opening a socket to
> > itself. Ideally, this wouldn't be opening up a separate set of sockets on
> > the frontend, either
>
> I could generate the preview in the preview generator if the file is
> local. But if it isn't, I'm not sure how to ensure that this gets run
> in a separate backend thread without the extra socket. Any ideas?

Well, if it's called when a recording or commflagging has just finished, 
shouldn't it always be local or have the appropriate myth:// url?  The 
generator code should work if the commflag code did.  Might be best to just 
go back to the in-line generation in the frontend, as well, since most 
recordings should have their pixmaps now, except for currently recording 
ones.  Shouldn't ever be that long of a delay to generate one or two images 
at a time, and the code's certainly simpler that way.

Isaac