<useddsfanart> advancedsetting (was: SQL more RAM)
#1
Hello!

I use Dharma 2, with Aeon65.

Especially when I scroll to my moviedatabase, it lags as hell.
Load of CPU goes up to 100%+ when I switch fast trough it.

Is it possible to allow SQL to use more RAM?

My system:

Atom 330
Nvidia 9400 (VDPAU enabled)
3GB RAM
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#2
what on earth makes you think it has anything to do with sql? you're seeing the results - thus the the sql naturally has been executed and parsed.

it's busy decoding thumbs. you can use dds (search for it) to alleviate that somewhat.
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#3
My money is on its struggling to load your thumbs.

Enable dds support in your advancedsettings - it should fix your issues.
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#4
I read that there is no/minimum performance acceleration with using dds?

Are there other ways to boost performance?
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#5
unixbyte Wrote:I read that there is no/minimum performance acceleration with using dds?

Are there other ways to boost performance?

Then you read wrong.
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#6
I'll give it a try.

Running now:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart/ || exit
find . -name '*.tbn' -or -name '*.dds' | cut -c-10 | sort | uniq -u |
while read n; do
mv $n.tbn $n.jpg
nvcompress -bc1 $n.jpg | awk '/taken:/{printf $3}'
mv $n.jpg $n.tbn
echo "s $(ls *.dds | wc -l)/$(ls *.tbn | wc -l)"
done

is that right?
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#7
No need to do that anymore, simply enable it in your advancedsettings.xml and it will process them in the background.
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#8
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsettings.xml

No hit for dds.
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#9
sho Wrote:http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsettings.xml

No hit for dds.

Fixed
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...sfanart.3E
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#10
Thx, it runs now. Will it convert only fanart or posters too?
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#11
prae5 Wrote:Fixed
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...sfanart.3E
Thanks, couple of questions, out of interest.

Will <useddsfanart> work for thumbs also?
Would this also be beneficial for PCs with the CPU/GPU ratio reversed?
ie a PC with a relatively powerful dual core P4 and a shitty intel GMA GPU

Once enabled, can it be reversed? (will both versions of the image be cached?)
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#12
1) yes - but only for some of them - there's a reason it's not enabled by default.
2) well, if your gpu is UTTER suckage, it like won't even support dds. we will then decompress on the cpu which likely is still faster than png/jpeg decoding. most intel GMA does dxt just fine and would benefit largely - less bw required.

yes, we cache both types.
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