Slow back to main manu? (1 Viewer)

[BL4CK]

Welcome
I asked why they return to the main menu(BasicHome) is slow , in other skins have not noticed this.

 

[ltfearme]

The more controls the slower it becomes, if its too slow you can reduce the number of menu items/options using the editor to get some more speed. If your system is just too slow, then consider using Standard Home instead as that's ultra fast.

 

[BL4CK]

My basic menu is six items/options and system Core2 duo 2x3Ghz/Ram 4GB, "then consider using Standard Home instead as that's ultra fast." no thanks BasicHome menu is beautiful.

 

[TommySharp]

Is it graphics card or CPU that would speed this sort of thing up?

 

[trevor]

Is it graphics card or CPU that would speed this sort of thing up?

CPU possibly but the real problem is the complexity of BasicHome.xml and a very rough count there are 364 controls in Basichome (excluding the controls in inport files) against 21 in myhome.xml. The delay is caused by all these controls being read and processed.

The better we make basichome the more complex and hence the more controls are used and the slower it will load.

There have been internal discussions about creating a dedicated menu plugin and with some of the current additions, requests and reports of slowness it looks like this is the way to go, will also allow us to more with the menu.

Don't expect it soon, will more 2/3 releases time at a guess.

Cheers

 

[mardup]

Re : Slow back to main manu?

Hey,
For me aloso, return to basichome is slow, but if I use classic (Standard) home, return is instantaneous !!

But the widht of menu in classic home is too much ...

Is it possible to have a standard home screen ( an also plugins screen ) with the "same look / same menu width " than home screen ...

Thanks a lot !!!

 

[ltfearme]

Ok, we discovered that the reason why its so slow to return to BasicHome is because of the fullscreen backdrops...the more items you have the more backdrops you most likely have that needs to be loaded.

In MediaPortal 1.2 Beta (which is not yet released), there is a new skin enhancement to selectivily cache images used by skin which are typically ignored by the skin cache (ie the ones we use from the Media\Animation folder).

Im happy to say the result is instantaneous BasicHome load speeds from plugins and vice versa....so if you have a slow system or even fast one, sit tight for MP 1.2 Beta and compatible StreamedMP release.

 

[mardup]

Re : Slow back to main manu?

Great news .........

 

[prometh]

AW: Slow back to main manu?

I've had the same issue in 1.1.1 guess the problem was the memory leak in the skin engine. Try updating to 1.1.2 that should already improve it.

regards