Frank Schmirler wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:56:52 +0200, Artur Skawina wrote >> Thanks for doing this; i've installed this on one client, after a few minutes >> of tests it does seem to do the job quite well. >> There's just one problem - during the epg download the client becomes very >> unresponsive, key presses appear after ~1s and sometimes frames are dropped >> (it's softdevice-based client). Happens in both epg sync modes. The following >> change makes most, if not all, of the delays go away. > thanks for this information. At first I used SetPriority(19), too. But then I > dropped it as I didn't encounter any problems, neither with my softdevice > client nor with my dxr3 client. At the german VDR Portal there had been > similar complaints with the "original" EPG sync of the streamdev plugin which > I could not reproduce either. So I guess the reason might be my slow server > which is a PII/350... I was using a 400MHz P2 as the server, which shouldn't be much faster. It probably depends on the client; hw, drivers (eg some xv drivers (like mga) are copying the video data using the cpu) and/or kernel (eg different process scheduler). artur
