[no Bug] Stuttering... but only the first 5 minutes! (1 Viewer)

[Eggert]

Hi,

I have a weird stuttering problem in Mediaportal 1.3.0 RC1 (and beta also).
In the first ~5 minutes after the start of MP there is anything that makes the mediaportal.exe using one CPU-thread at full load in random time intervals. After 5 minutes everything is just smooth as it has to be.
It is influencing the whole program: videos/TV stutter, the menue lags,...

When I close MP and start it again, there is the same problem.

I tried some things like disabling plugins, changing and reinstalling codecs, ATI display drivers, disabling DVB-EPG, changing skin from Titan to another one,...

Is there anything else I can try to find out WHAT exactly causes MP to lag this hard - what COULD it be when it appears only in the first 5 minutes after start?

System is an intel i5 on Win7/64 with 8GB Ram, SSD and ATI graphics

Thanks in advance!
Eggert

 

[HomeY]

Moved post to the correct forum.

@Eggert: please post full debug logs (while trying to reproduce this problem) and fill in your system specs. Without logs it's only guessing what your problem is.

 

[Lightning303]

I get the same thing. Its MPTVSeries searching for new stuff. Just disable that tvseries are fetched on mp start and your stutter is gone.

 

[Eggert]

Thanks for the hint - in my case it was the moving pictures plugin. I thought I tried to disable that one... I seem to have missed it, sorry.
Maybe it is the same searching-database-update thing at the beginning.
Since I am not the Standby-System-User and frequently restart the whole system, I disabled this plugin and am happy now.
Not the best solution though...

Thanks!
Eggert

 

[Lightning303]

mh, thats strange, for me movingpictures is making no problems at all when it is searching for new stuff, tv series on the other hand lets my system lag like crazy.

 

[HomeY]

TNX for the feedback guys. I'll set this thread to No Bug then, since it's not MP core related.
I use both Moving Pictures & Tv Series and don't have any issues with them, but my HTPC run on a i7-860. I assume an i5 is more than enough power to run those plugins without issues.
I would like to suggest to mention this issue to the plugin developer, so he can look into it and see if there is anything to improve!

 

[DragonQ]

Yeah I get this too but only for about 1 minute after starting MediaPortal. A few stutters here and there whilst Moving Pictures and MP-TVSeries search for new files and download artwork & info I guess. Not sure if there's a way around it - even setting MediaPortal to have higher than normal priority doesn't help.