TV Thumbnails (1 Viewer)

[gloomyandy]

Hi,
Could someone explain to me what may cause the creation of a thumbnail for TV programs to take a very long time. I notice from the source code (of the latest svn), that the GrabBitmaps function (in DvrMsImageGrabber.cs) has a comment next to it saying that this may take an infinite amount of time for some files. Well I seem to have a few of these! I'd like to take a look at fixing this, but I thought it would be good to understand what is going on first, so if anyone out there in dev land can help that would be good!

Andy

 

[Mr Hipp]

It take forever if you have enabled direct x exlusive mode. Because thmbnails needs it own graph (including renderer). Having two renders blocks the second one when you have exlusive mode. The thumb creation is triggered when you browse your recordings, often TV is on at this time, so you will have the above problem.

MrHipp