[mythtv] New fade effect in front end not working well

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 23:06:07 UTC 2006


On 3/4/06, Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I upgraded to latest SVN to get the fixes for database timeouts and
> external tuner command.  When I did, I notice I also got a possible cool
> new feature were text fades in and out.
>
> Unforuntely, its not working very well for me.  When the frontend first
> displays, I get my normal Titivillus theme with text.  But then the
> background is cleared to all white and I only see the text (Watch TV,
> etc).  I can still basically function but when I change screens the fade
> effect takes around 5 seconds to complete which is a little longish.
>
> I am using Via XvMC for output and I'm using Fedora Core 5 Test 3 so
> I've got pretty much the latest drivers in that area.  OpenGL is totally
> out of my area so not much I can debug without pointers from the pros.
> Well, I'm assuming its an OpenGL issue because of the next item.
>
> I noticed that ticket #1451 mentions the fade being slow but doesn't
> talk about the white part.  I was going to disable the
> "UseOpenGLPainter" option that it mentions but I didn't find it in my
> settings database.  Should it have been auto-inserted there?

It's not in the database. It's in the source (You change the
"OpenGLPainter" to "QTPainter"). It's intended to have a setting in
the frontend, but for now, that's where it's done.
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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