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

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Sat Mar 4 23:18:27 UTC 2006


On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:06, Robert Johnston wrote:
> 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.

It's:
mythfrontend -O UseOpenGLPainter=0

Just note that it's going to be a bit slower than even the old code until I 
get a bit more time to work on things.  Right now it'll be redrawing the 
entire menu on any update, which isn't that good. =)

Isaac


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