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- Gulliver - 2011-03-22 14:14

That's OK ...

I didn't understand that pyo files were created at mythbox's startup.
Sorry for noise

- Dolence - 2011-03-22 23:24

Hi fellas!

Here is my feedback:

ASUS P7H55-M
INTEL CORE i3
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GT220 1024
SKYSTAR HD 2

Using VAAPI I can't get MythBox to work. NVIDIA VDPAU works like a charm.
The only problem so far is: channel changes are really slow. In MythTV Frontend changes takes 2-3 secs, what is pretty aceptable. However, using XBMC + MythBox it takes 10 secs or more.
I dont believe it's normal... What's your channel change time?

Thanks in advance!

- TugboatBill - 2011-03-23 16:51

My channel change time is about 5 seconds. Too slow in my opinion.

What's a bigger problem for us is the occasional blank schedule screen lockup and the stops that occur every ~8mins when watching a program as it records.

- Dolence - 2011-03-23 17:46

Thanks for your reply!

I would be happy if I could get 5 seconds channel changes.
Is there anything I can do to improve this performance?

- Hammi - 2011-03-23 18:40

Is it quicker for you in MythTV? Or is it a general problem? If the latter, the root cause may be in the DVB hardware and/or the driver.

- TugboatBill - 2011-03-23 19:00

Dolence Wrote:Thanks for your reply!

I would be happy if I could get 5 seconds channel changes.
Is there anything I can do to improve this performance?

Obviously faster equipment will result in faster response times.

Check out your xbmc.log and try to resolve any errors that appear there. In my experience Mythbox is sensitive to error conditions so everything you can do to fix them helps. Even not having icons for channels will slow it down.

Perhaps someone could post here where the Myth backend keeps its log files. Those would be a good place to look for problems also.

- zepfan - 2011-03-23 19:17

I get a couple second channel chain and that includes irsending the channel code, changing the channel on the cable box, and sending it all over FireWire. It's a slow but that's ok. If I could view the guide while watching tv, like mythtv I'd be happy though.

- zepfan - 2011-03-23 19:22

TugboatBill Wrote:Obviously faster equipment will result in faster response times.

Check out your xbmc.log and try to resolve any errors that appear there. In my experience Mythbox is sensitive to error conditions so everything you can do to fix them helps. Even not having icons for channels will slow it down.

Perhaps someone could post here where the Myth backend keeps its log files. Those would be a good place to look for problems also.

I believe they're in /var/log.

- Dolence - 2011-03-23 20:47

Hammi Wrote:Is it quicker for you in MythTV? Or is it a general problem? If the latter, the root cause may be in the DVB hardware and/or the driver.

Yes! In MythTV Frontend channel changes takes 2 or 3 seconds!
I will ask a friend of mine to test on his setup.

TugboatBill Wrote:Obviously faster equipment will result in faster response times.

Check out your xbmc.log and try to resolve any errors that appear there. In my experience Mythbox is sensitive to error conditions so everything you can do to fix them helps. Even not having icons for channels will slow it down.

Perhaps someone could post here where the Myth backend keeps its log files. Those would be a good place to look for problems also.

Ok, I will check my logs for errors.


Thanks for the fast reply!

- Dolence - 2011-03-24 16:46

Hi!

Let me thank for everyone giving some feedback here and a big thank to the coder who spent his time to make this eye candy addon avaliable to us.

Changing MythTV Backend IP from 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.1.2 I saw some speed improvement on channel changing: 7-8 secs for SD channels and 15-20 secs or more for HD, what I think is very very slow.

I'am running MythTV on the same box as XBMC + Mythbox and when using MythTV Frontend channel changes took no more then 3 secs. In Mythbox should not to be the same?
Please, can anyone report if it's normal channel changes being so slow?

Here are my specs in a more detailed way:
ASUS P7H55-M
INTEL CORE i3
8 Gb DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA GT220 1024 Mb + latest drivers from Ubuntu repositories
SKYSTAR HD 2 @ StarOne C2 70.0W

Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
XBMC 10.10 - XBMC Team PPA (not the PVR one)
MythTV 0.23.1 + fixes - Ubuntu default repositories
MythTV Backend IP 192.168.1.2
Mythbox 1.0.2 - installed from Addons menu

Another small problems I've noticed are:
- I'm brazilian and in EPG special characters like ã, õ, é, etc are not showed correctly. I know it's MythTV related, but if anyone knows how to correct this I would be grateful!
- While watching a channel, if I open EPG the small video screen is half covered by EPG info.
- When I change the channel while in EPG that green spinning loading circle appears under/covered by EPG info.

Thats all!

Sorry if my english isnt so god. And again, thanks for everyone!