[mythtv-users] How to get rid of slow and fancy menu fade in/out effects
Marc MERLIN
marc_mtv at merlins.org
Fri Mar 14 16:06:11 UTC 2008
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:03:32AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > I've not tried,
> > though, as I always had stability problems whenever I enabled it with
> > my old TV, where I was using 800x600. I have noticed that even with
> > the Qt renderer the menus aren't quite as snappy at 1920x1080 as they
> > were at 800x600. Far from unusable; just a titch slower than instant.
>
> Exactly my results with OpenGL at 1920x1080 on my MX440. The menu was
> just slightly slower than at lower resolutions, but probably primarily
> due to the loading of the larger image sizes (rather than the OpenGL
> itself).
That's what confused me. I thought the MX440 was actually a fairly decent
card, and that animating a menu was a pretty trivial task compared to
displaying a few hundred thousand shaded polygons for your average 3D game.
The speed I got looked with hw rendering about as fast as when I run
googleearth with software rendering...
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:59:57AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Thus the help text ;)
>
> Paint Engine
> - Qt
> - OpenGL
> This selects what MythTV uses to draw. If you have decent hardware,
> select OpenGL. Changing this requires a restart.
>
> It is easy to miss, but just a reminder for all that the help text has
> some really good info in it.
I saw that, and still consider my hardware decent for what it was being
asked to do :)
And going back to my mythtv-setup over ssh problem, opengl is just such a
killer there that it makes it unusable. Would there be a way (i.e. can there
be a way) to disable opengl on the command line when you're over a somewhat
slower connection?
Thanks,
Marc
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