2013-07-22, 21:56
(2013-07-22, 21:43)doveman2 Wrote: Where's the correct place to report bugs like this?
Not sure, to be honest. The Weather add-on is, I think, a core part of XBMC.
Hammering the GUI could be a bug, or just poor design, but either way it usually goes unnoticed when stuff is developed on a quad-core i7 with 8GB RAM... I'm not sure if efficiency is a goal for XBMC (I'd like to think it is) but I've said it before: all code should be tested on the least capable officially supported device before being signed off or accepted. At least that's a rule I'd be enforcing if I was project manager!!
(2013-07-22, 21:43)doveman2 Wrote: I'm also seeing higher CPU (77-87%) when video (mpeg2/ts) is paused and no better when the screen dims, than when it's actually playing (44-58%), which is a pain as if you have to go and do something else and pause the video, you'd like it to use minimal power while it's not doing anything. I can only guess this is because the pause OSD appears in the top-right and this triggers XBMC's issues with redrawing the screen. Strangely though, this problem doesn't happen if I bring up the timeline OSD whilst playing the video (slight increase from 45% to 54%), or even the full Now Plaiying OSD (still the same when I pause though, regardless of what's displayed at the time).
I don't have any ts files to test with, is it just mpeg2/ts files? I just did a quick test of an SD movie over NFS, and when playing top shows 14-18% but while paused (Conflued Modified with small OSD in top right corner) the CPU load increases to a solid 25%, which is...strange.
Test post.