Scrolling through lists and backgrounds seem laggy (2 Viewers)

[disastar]

I'm having some very minor issues after the recent patch (though it could also be related to my update to 1.1.2):
1) Scrolling through my music album list is much slower now. I used to be able to hold the down arrow on the remote and rapidly move from the beginning to the end of my album list, but now refreshing a new page is laggy.
2) When backing out of a menu back into the home screen (say from TV Shows to home) using the back button, some random background wallpaper flashes briefly before the correct wallpaper is displayed. For example, returning to home from the settings menu causes the weather display to flash over the top of the Pictures wallpaper before displaying the Settings wallpaper.

Neither of these issues are major, obviously. Just wanted to let you know. Keep up the awesome work! Thanks.

 

[ltfearme]

I wouldnt think the last patch would cause that, most likely your update to 1.1.2. Although 1.1.2 is suppose to be faster than 1.1.1.

 

[the1]

I am also experiencing the problem described in number 2.

 

[trevor]

Hi,

Regarding issue 2 , sorry to say this was introduced in the last patch, would only effect the vertical menu though.

We added hidden animation to the backgrounds, what I forgot about was that hidden animation only works in the unreleased MP 1.2beta - Quote from Wiki for 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 changes.

"Whenever you use a hidden animation with conditional visibility, all the hidden animations execute on windowopen, As a result hidden animations have been mainly unusable. The underlying issue is that currently in MP, when a window is opened, all controls are initially visible. Later their visibility condition is evaluated thus changing controls from visible to hidden and triggering the hidden animation."

I did not notice as I use the latest MP SVN on the dev systems - will sort this for the next patch and only add the hidden animation of running on a version of MP that handles them correctly.

If a real problem an eay fix is to manually edit BasicHome.xml and remove the line

<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="600" reversible="false">Hidden</animation>

from the BACKGROUND controls - ID 1200, 1201,1202 etc

:sorry:

 

[Haraldpeter]

AW: Scrolling through lists and backgrounds seem laggy

Hi,

is it possible to disable automatic Update via StreamedMP Gui ? Im running MP 1.1.2 an have no interest to use MP 1.2.

A really good and stable StreamedMP Version for me is the 1.4.3 without any issues.

best Regards
Harald

 

[trevor]

Re: AW: Scrolling through lists and backgrounds seem laggy

Hi,

is it possible to disable automatic Update via StreamedMP Gui ? Im running MP 1.1.2 an have no interest to use MP 1.2.

A really good and stable StreamedMP Version for me is the 1.4.3 without any issues.

best Regards
Harald

We are not releasing any versions that require 1.2 features (the one detailed here slipped though) and will continue to improve the skin for the current stable release. That said you can control the behaviour of the sin update feature from the StreamedMPConfiguration plugin - see attached screenshot.

 

[Haraldpeter]

AW: Scrolling through lists and backgrounds seem laggy

Hi,

many Thanks to this minor - that did it for me.

keep up this good work

Best regards
Harald

 

[the1]

Thanks for the information Trevor

 

[Haraldpeter]

AW: Scrolling through lists and backgrounds seem laggy

Hi,

But, if I never update the StreamedMP Skin from my favorit 1.4.3. because of MP 1.1.2 - what will be in future ?

Can this performed issues over longer Time ?

Best Regards
Harald

 

[trevor]

Re: AW: Scrolling through lists and backgrounds seem laggy

Hi,

But, if I never update the StreamedMP Skin from my favorit 1.4.3. because of MP 1.1.2 - what will be in future ?

Can this performed issues over longer Time ?

Best Regards
Harald

Hi Harald,

We will contine to support fully the current 1.1.2 release with StreamedMP 1.4.x.x and updates will only be targeted at this version so you can feel confident that updates will not require you to upgrade your MP version. There was a mistake made with the last patch which caused the background image issue, we are releaseing a patch tomorrow which addreeses this issue.

As for the furtue we have 1.5.x.x in development to support MP 1.2 when it is released, there will no auto-update to that version from users running StreamedMP 1.4.x code - users would need to install MP 1.2 and then StreamedMP 1.5.

We will maintain the 1.4.x.x version with minimal support for users wishing to stay on MP 1.1.2 with current patch system and updates that are compatible will be included in these patches though updates are likley to less frequent after MP 1.2 is released.

Hope that helps