Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 579747" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: ScrollingPictures can be small in resolution and still enormous in filesize. It's the latter that is important, due to the delays in loading, added memory required for caching, etc.The performance monitor will allow you to find out where the bottleneck delay lies, and optimize accordingly. But even with gigantic images, MovingPictures has always been responsive to me, it was just that I was running out of storage space on my small OS partition which made me create the 'thumbs' reduction script.I did notice an increase in speed, and other ppl since then have commented on that as well, hence my suggestion to try it.Are you perhaps running latest SVN of MediaPortal? I do see a lot of chatter regarding speed problems with the latest SVN on that, and if you go back 2 or 3 versions you should be good to go. They are working on fixing it, and you can simply switch back to an older version when things break. Infact to be totally sure where the delay is coming from, you could just make a backup of what you have now and then do a fresh test-install of MediaPortal v1.0.2 (stable) and restore your MovingPictures setup into that one, to see if problem goes away.That's the config I run myself, MediaPortal v1.0.2 with MovingPictures v1.1.0.1049 (custom build from trunk) and it runs like magic for me, on hardware much slower then yours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 579747, member: 18896"] [b]Re: Scrolling[/b] Pictures can be small in resolution and still enormous in filesize. It's the latter that is important, due to the delays in loading, added memory required for caching, etc. The performance monitor will allow you to find out where the bottleneck delay lies, and optimize accordingly. But even with gigantic images, MovingPictures has always been responsive to me, it was just that I was running out of storage space on my small OS partition which made me create the 'thumbs' reduction script. I did notice an increase in speed, and other ppl since then have commented on that as well, hence my suggestion to try it. Are you perhaps running latest SVN of MediaPortal? I do see a lot of chatter regarding speed problems with the latest SVN on that, and if you go back 2 or 3 versions you should be good to go. They are working on fixing it, and you can simply switch back to an older version when things break. Infact to be totally sure where the delay is coming from, you could just make a backup of what you have now and then do a fresh test-install of MediaPortal v1.0.2 (stable) and restore your MovingPictures setup into that one, to see if problem goes away. That's the config I run myself, MediaPortal v1.0.2 with MovingPictures v1.1.0.1049 (custom build from trunk) and it runs like magic for me, on hardware much slower then yours. [/QUOTE]

Verification