Mailing List Archive: MythTV: Users

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv?

Index | Next | Previous | View Threaded

mlists at dressler

Sep 21, 2008, 3:28 PM

Post #1 of 6 (644 views)
Permalink

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv?

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 15:03 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Norm wrote:
>
> > I have a real problem with slow responding guide in SVN. I've
> > applied the patch related to this problem from trac that turns off
> > compositing but that didn't resolve my issue. Bob deinterlacing is
> > turned off, I set the eco guide for low-cpu, etc. But when watching
> > h.264 through my hd pvr, its still really slow and sometimes not
> > responding for several seconds.
> >
> > I'm thinking I can do without watching TV while browsing the guide
> > so if there is a way to suspend tv while in the guide, I think that
> > might do the trick for me.
>
> It's probably just a lack of CPU to decode the content and show the
> guide. What does top say?
> I think there is an option to pause while in the guide.

top shows me mythtv and mysql and only about 1.5. It's an AMD dual-core
2.6Ghz system.

Pausing would be great too but I haven't been able to find that option
-- any direction would be appreciated.

Norm

mlists at dressler

Sep 21, 2008, 3:36 PM

Post #2 of 6 (601 views)
Permalink

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv? [In reply to]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 18:28 -0400, Norm wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 15:03 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>
> > On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Norm wrote:
> >
> > > I have a real problem with slow responding guide in SVN. I've
> > > applied the patch related to this problem from trac that turns off
> > > compositing but that didn't resolve my issue. Bob deinterlacing is
> > > turned off, I set the eco guide for low-cpu, etc. But when watching
> > > h.264 through my hd pvr, its still really slow and sometimes not
> > > responding for several seconds.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking I can do without watching TV while browsing the guide
> > > so if there is a way to suspend tv while in the guide, I think that
> > > might do the trick for me.
> >
> > It's probably just a lack of CPU to decode the content and show the
> > guide. What does top say?
> > I think there is an option to pause while in the guide.
>
> top shows me mythtv and mysql and only about 1.5. It's an AMD
> dual-core 2.6Ghz system.
>
> Pausing would be great too but I haven't been able to find that option
> -- any direction would be appreciated.
>

I did try pausing live TV and then going into the guide and that seems
to work - guide is responsive like it should be. Interestingly, I think
I found a bug - when you switch channels from the guide and then hit
pause again on the new channel it indicates as being 'unpaused' even
though it was no longer paused. Pausing is possible again after that
though.

So the question is how can I get it to pause automatically if even
possible.

Thanks
Norm

mtdean at thirdcontact

Sep 21, 2008, 3:40 PM

Post #3 of 6 (602 views)
Permalink

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv? [In reply to]

On 09/21/2008 06:28 PM, Norm wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 15:03 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Norm wrote:
>>
>> > I have a real problem with slow responding guide in SVN. I've
>> > applied the patch related to this problem from trac that turns off
>> > compositing but that didn't resolve my issue. Bob deinterlacing is
>> > turned off, I set the eco guide for low-cpu, etc. But when watching
>> > h.264 through my hd pvr, its still really slow and sometimes not
>> > responding for several seconds.
>> >
>> > I'm thinking I can do without watching TV while browsing the guide
>> > so if there is a way to suspend tv while in the guide, I think that
>> > might do the trick for me.
>>
>> It's probably just a lack of CPU to decode the content and show the
>> guide. What does top say?
>> I think there is an option to pause while in the guide.
>>
> top shows me mythtv and mysql and only about 1.5. It's an AMD
> dual-core 2.6Ghz system.
>
> Pausing would be great too but I haven't been able to find that option
> -- any direction would be appreciated.

Continue Playback When Embedded
This option continues TV playback when the TV window is embedded in the
upcoming program list or recorded list. The default is to pause the
recorded show when embedded.

in General Playback settings, perhaps? (I don't use LiveTV, so I have
no idea what that does.)

Mike
_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

mlists at dressler

Sep 21, 2008, 3:47 PM

Post #4 of 6 (603 views)
Permalink

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv? [In reply to]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 18:40 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 09/21/2008 06:28 PM, Norm wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 15:03 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >> On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Norm wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have a real problem with slow responding guide in SVN. I've
> >> > applied the patch related to this problem from trac that turns off
> >> > compositing but that didn't resolve my issue. Bob deinterlacing is
> >> > turned off, I set the eco guide for low-cpu, etc. But when watching
> >> > h.264 through my hd pvr, its still really slow and sometimes not
> >> > responding for several seconds.
> >> >
> >> > I'm thinking I can do without watching TV while browsing the guide
> >> > so if there is a way to suspend tv while in the guide, I think that
> >> > might do the trick for me.
> >>
> >> It's probably just a lack of CPU to decode the content and show the
> >> guide. What does top say?
> >> I think there is an option to pause while in the guide.
> >>
> > top shows me mythtv and mysql and only about 1.5. It's an AMD
> > dual-core 2.6Ghz system.
> >
> > Pausing would be great too but I haven't been able to find that option
> > -- any direction would be appreciated.
>
> Continue Playback When Embedded
> This option continues TV playback when the TV window is embedded in the
> upcoming program list or recorded list. The default is to pause the
> recorded show when embedded.
>
> in General Playback settings, perhaps? (I don't use LiveTV, so I have
> no idea what that does.)
>

That was already set off which indicates it should pause but it does
nothing while viewing live TV.

Thx
Norm

mtdean at thirdcontact

Sep 21, 2008, 4:07 PM

Post #5 of 6 (602 views)
Permalink

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv? [In reply to]

On 09/21/2008 06:47 PM, Norm wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 18:40 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Continue Playback When Embedded
>> This option continues TV playback when the TV window is embedded in the
>> upcoming program list or recorded list. The default is to pause the
>> recorded show when embedded.
>>
>> in General Playback settings, perhaps? (I don't use LiveTV, so I have
>> no idea what that does.)
> That was already set off which indicates it should pause but it does
> nothing while viewing live TV.

Guess it doesn't apply to the OSD EPG with the EPG drawn on top of the
video (just the GUI EPG with the video window embedded in it). I told
you I know nothing about LiveTV.

Oh, and no, I don't know how/if you can disable the OSD EPG and switch
to the GUI one.

Mike
_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

myth at dermanouelian

Sep 21, 2008, 4:26 PM

Post #6 of 6 (589 views)
Permalink

Re: Can I turn off the channel preview in the guide while in livetv? [In reply to]

On Sep 21, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Continue Playback When Embedded
> This option continues TV playback when the TV window is embedded in
> the
> upcoming program list or recorded list. The default is to pause the
> recorded show when embedded.

That's the setting I was thinking about. I don't use LiveTV either, so
I don't have the problem. ;)

_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Index | Next | Previous | View Threaded

Interested in having your list archived? Contact lists@gossamer-threads.com