2013-03-27, 15:18
(2013-03-27, 14:05)spjonez Wrote:Quote:- speed up UI navigationWhoever was responsible for this patch, thank you very much! Before this release, cycling backgrounds on home screen items stuttered sometimes and wasn't nearly as fluid as transitions in media views (each home item is a folder of images, one is randomly selected when you highlight a menu item). After upgrading to this build, the home screen doesn't fade to black between animations anymore and media view transitions are even smoother when mashing the arrow keys to jump far down a list.
Every time I think the Pi has hit a new high you guys manage to do it again. Cheers!
Do you use the PVR functions? I find it takes about 4s for the timeline EPG to appear when I press my shortcut button I've mapped to it and then scrolling the EPG is very laggy. When TV is running it's worse and takes about 8s to appear but that's obviously because LiveTV is using part of the CPU but nevertheless it's a rather painful experience
Even on the Home screen I find it still quite slow changing screen, which is partly due to the fade out transition which I kinda wish could be disabled to sped it up a bit. Scrolling through movies (on Poster Wrap) can be a bit laggy as well although it seems to cache the posters the first time, so if I scroll through the whole lot to allow it to cache them, it's a lot quicker after that (not sure if this persists after a reboot but I imagine so).
Hmm, it almost seems from what you've said that I don't have this build with these improvements, although I updated with the 24/03 build. Maybe it didn't update properly for some reason, so I'll try updating to the latest again.
EDIT: Well it's definitely updated now and no difference. There's still a second or two when selecting Movies, TV Shows, etc from Home where the menu fades out and I just see the background before the next screen appears. I thought maybe having TVheadend running in the background (I'm using the Mediaportal PVR addon) loads the CPU but top just shows xbmc at 28-32% CPU and everything else is at 0.1-0.2%.