[mythtv-users] Program Guide speed on Epia M9000
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Feb 2 19:36:13 UTC 2006
Michael T. Dean wrote:
> R. G. Newbury wrote:
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>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>> Marco Ridoni wrote:
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>>>> The program guide, on my Epia M9000 (C3 at 933MHz) based MythTV system is really slow.
>>>> It takes ten seconds to enter the first screen and 2-3 seconds each time I scroll one
>>>> row up or down. I've tried with different themes (Retro, Blue, GANT, etc.) and different
>>>> graphics fill settings but it doesn't seem to matter a lot. Is anyone experiencing similar problems?
>>>> Is this a DB issue? For everything else the system works quite well: Live TV is not a problem and
>>>> DiVX videos are played without a hitch.
>>>>
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>>> Myth can't find the channel icons. Fix your config.
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>> Are you saying that a channel icon is (effectively) required by myth?
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> No, just that you've told Myth to find channel icons somewhere and they
> aren't there. In other words, you have a value or values in the icon
> field of the channel table in the database that is *not* the actual
> location of the channel icon for the respective channel(s). So, either
> "UPDATE channel SET icon = '';" or get some icons or fix the values in
> the database...
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>> And that the delay in tuning etc. is due to a 'search and not-find' delay?
>>
>> If so, any thoughts on where/how to patch the code to skip the search
>> entirely? I don't particularly care about having channel icons... I've
>> not missed them to date, but I have noticed the delay in screen
>> changing.. and I have an Epia Sp13000.
>>
Thanks. I will check and if necessary go the 'update channel set...'
route. Since I have never done anything to install icons I have no
idea what is in the db..Hopefully, that will reduce the delay.
Geoff
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