[mythtv-users] Re:Slow EPG & cause info

[Brent W. York]

My EPG still scrolls extremely slowly...any ideas what else could be causing
this? I rebuilt Qt with -qt-gif, which made no difference (but only one of
my icons is a gif, anyway)...

Thanks,
_Brent

> On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:59 pm, Roy Hooper wrote:
> > I was curious why I was experiencing extremely slow EPG performance.
> > After manual efforts to populate the database with icons it occured to
> > me that the icons I was adding weren't showing up still. I then took
> > note of which icons weren't showing up still and which ones were, and
> > found a common trend: Icons that were .GIF were not showing up. Icons
> > that were .JPG were. The fix: fix the database and convert the icons.
> > Unfortunately, mythfilldatabase will overwrite that at the next run.
>
> There is now a workaround for this in CVS -- problem here was that his Qt
> wasn't compiled for gif support, so it couldn't load the images. The
channel
> icon loading code was rather dumb and thought that the only way that could
> happen was if it didn't have the files, so it asked the master backend to
> send em the file, and still couldn't load it. Repeat just about every
redraw
> of the EPG.
>
> Isaac