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Startup sliding animation - bniswe - 2012-02-19

First, great work with the Aeon Nox skin, I like it a lot!

The animation when XBMC starts, when the menu "slides" into place is kind of slow and jerky.

I wish there was an option to either disable the animation or if it could be made much faster (near instantaneous).

I have OS X Lion, 2010 MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB and Eden beta 3. Aeon Nox 2.0.0 installed from within XBMC.


- Martijn - 2012-02-19

bniswe Wrote:First, great work with the Aeon Nox skin, I like it a lot!

The animation when XBMC starts, when the menu "slides" into place is kind of slow and jerky.

I wish there was an option to either disable the animation or if it could be made much faster (near instantaneous).

I have OS X Lion, 2010 MacBook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB and Eden beta 3. Aeon Nox 2.0.0 installed from within XBMC.

Try this:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Enable_dirty_regions


- bniswe - 2012-02-19

Thanks, I have tried it with algorithmdirtyregions set to 1 and it makes no difference from what I can see.

Im not sure this is a performance problem.

Could be that the animation is set up to be displayed this way, and I just think its too slow moving.

Eye candy animations is great of course but they shouldnt slow down the UI.


- Elixxen - 2012-02-19

All animations are smooths as butter but this one in particular is quite jerky even on my system. I'm running XBMC on a 2011 Mac Mini, i5 processor and 8GB of ram.


- Martijn - 2012-02-19

Depends on what you are running at startup. Like if you have update/clean library at stratup this will be hadr on your system. Also if you have several scripts running


- Elixxen - 2012-02-20

Martijn Wrote:Depends on what you are running at startup. Like if you have update/clean library at stratup this will be hadr on your system. Also if you have several scripts running

Good point


- bniswe - 2012-02-20

I dont run update/clean library on startup and have no scripts or plugins enabled except for the ones that comes with XBMC Eden beta 3

Like I said, It doesnt look like a performance problem. I think the animation is done in a odd looking way, and my feature request is this:

Can the animation be optionally disabled or modified to look less odd?


- BigNoid - 2012-02-20

It's intentionally slow to give time for the startup scripts to finish before the menu is loaded. It can be disabled of course, but would require editing xml's as I don't want to make a, imo, trivial option for this. Look in Inlcudes_Animations.xml for condition="Window.Previous(startup)" and condition="!Window.Previous(startup)" to see what needs to be edited. It's quite a few lines of code that needs to be altered.
Just to clarify, it doesn't look odd at all on my systems (otherwise I would have changed it already). It's just the same animation as normal, only slower.