[mythtv-users] Channel guide is way too slow

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Jelle De Loecker wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> So I have +/- 2500 channels in my channel list, the perks of using
> satellite television.
>
> When I try to open the guide it takes about 50 seconds for it to load.
> "Browsing" in this lists takes a while, too. When I press up or down  
> it
> can sometimes take a few seconds.
>
> This is what happens on my dual core system, so you can imagine what
> happens on my poor, little Apple TV! (running Mythbuntu)
>
> Once I've tried to "hide" most of the channels in the channels table.
> (Nearly all, I only had 20 channels left) but that didn't do much  
> for my
> Apple TV frontend: it was still browsing WAY too slow.
>
> I've read that disabling channel icons can help, but it really didn't.
>
> Mind you, I'm NOT even talking about the guide in live tv. I'm talking
> about the regular kind, the one you can get to in the menu.
>
> I'm using the trunk of mythtv, btw.

Missing icons can make for a VERY slow guide as it tries to find each  
one to display (and fails). Are you seeing channel icons?