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Duduke
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2008-02-24, 22:56
Hi All,
Is anyone else experiencing extremely low performance (FPS=1 CPU=100) when browsing a library that has 200+ items?
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I have 562 items in my video library and don't see that problem.
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Nor here, I too am umm "over" 550. Response is damned good.
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Is your performance still fast even after getting the IMDB info and movie poster for all your movies?
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Almost all of my IMDB info was brought down on the XBOX and transferred over. I'm not sure I have poster stuff downloaded but I do have actor info etc.. A problem I have, since I'm not using the XBOX controller and thus sometimes have issues figuring out how to do certain things like update movie info and delete sources. I'll try to get around to figuring that out and get back, hopefully someone else has a fully loaded up database and can comment too.
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My library is chunky as well. About 200 movies, mostly populated with IMDB info.
Haven't noticed things like 1fps, but when I'm in Library mode scrollers start/stop constantly and if I play a movie it start/stop/skips a lot. Dropping out of Library mode and everything is fine again (may require xmbc restart, I forget).
Next time I try I'll compile with debugging enabled and check things like mem/cpu/fps etc...
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I have issues with my library when I try and look at actors. I have 2500 movies indexed which has created over 300,000 actors and it takes a good minute or two to show the actors index screen!
I'm thinking about parsing the nfo's to only contain 5 or so actors per movie as most of them are bit parts etc...
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I have around 800 movies, using the ICON view so the movie posters are displayed and it seems to be as fast scanning through them as it was when I used the LIST view. Only problem I have is that I need to figure out how to manually change some of the info that imdb put in there, because it's not all correct.
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Once library mode is enabled it starts dropping frames about 3-8 per second. Which becomings irritatingly noticable on pans and some other shots. The cpu usage overall and most of the stats seems to be extremely similar. CPU around 5/7 on each core. This happens with all codecs and containers.. xvid/h264/mpeg mkv/avi/dvd. The only way to stop it is to disable library mode and reset then to not use library mode at all.
I can say that whenever your in a directory whch contains actual files while NOT in library mode the thing that repeats in my above posts stops. It does show it on lists such as the source selction screen and even in screens showing acutal shares - but not once your in an actual directory. Once library mode is initiated it's always happening regardless of where you are or what your doing.
As a test I destroyed my video library allt ogether and just scanned in 1 tv show for testing and I get the exact same results.. it does seem less noticable and is only dropping at max 2 frames a second, but it's definately there.
There's definately something wrong with Library mode and it's impacting performance after it's loaded.
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Sorry for so many posts in a row - but I've found a temporary work around till someone goes in and fixes this.
If you play things from the Now Playing... playlist screen then the problem stops. Probably becuase refreshing the playlist screen in the background doesn't interupt movie playing for whatever reason. In any case it doesnt' hit the DB refreshing the Episode List so lighter i guess..
In any case thats a work around.
I've been digging around trying to figure out exactly how to fix this but I don't know how the directory code works and can't seem to figure it out. All someone has to do is go in and tell it the library to stop refreshing the Episode List screen or whatever virtual directory Navigation screen while a Video is playing - unless obviusly your in mode where you can see both.