Backdrops make Alaska slow

Hi Hitcher,

I noticed that, enabling backdrops (I tried poster view) make animations stutter, and slow.

I suppose this is due to disk activity to read backdrop images.
If that's the case, is there a way to forse a little pause, 1/2 sec maybe, before the backdrop gets loaded ?
This way there won't be stuttering in fast scrolling operations, and the general feeling may be better... ?

When I scroll XBMC wont load a new one until I stop anyway.

You mean keeping pressed the button to scroll ?

But how's like when you press it many times, with very very little pause ?

You could try converting all of your backdrops to .bmp.
They'll use up more space but they'll load quicker.

(You could use IrfanView to convert them all to .bmp in one batch)

That wont make any difference as they're cached and loaded from the Thumbnail folder.

Hitcher Wrote:That wont make any difference as they're cached and loaded from the Thumbnail folder.

Even when you have them as an seperate file in your movie folder?

Yes, when it first adds the movie to the library it will make thumbnails of the folder and fanart images it finds with the video file and use them. If you resize your fanart first they'll result in smaller thumbnails.

Hitcher Wrote:When I scroll XBMC wont load a new one until I stop anyway.

I have noticed that when fan art is turned off that I can scroll through my movies far faster than if it is on. I know the fan art only loads when you stop on a movie for a little while but it is still noticeably slower enabled. I'm not blaming Alaska here as I have noticed this with another skin.

Avigrace Wrote:I have noticed that when fan art is turned off that I can scroll through my movies far faster than if it is on. I know the fan art only loads when you stop on a movie for a little while but it is still noticeably slower enabled. I'm not blaming Alaska here as I have noticed this with another skin.

If you want your fanart to load instantly then you need to convert your cached fanart to .dds as large jpg's are always going take time to load

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...hlight=dds

You can see a comparison below

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=488...stcount=49

>>X<< Wrote:If you want your fanart to load instantly then you need to convert your cached fanart to .dds as large jpg's are always going take time to load

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...hlight=dds

You can see a comparison below

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=488...stcount=49

Holy Smokes thats amazing. Hope it's that much of a drastic change on the ATV