Browse mode in LiveTV - video/audio stops < 1s - Windows Frontend

[Shinck@…]

At my windows-frontend of mythtv in liveTV I wondered why in browse mode video/audio stops for an annoying time (but < 1s) if i display another channel. After some investigation i discovered that this was caused by the channel icon, that was requested and downloaded from the backends StorageGroup which stopped reading from the ringbuffer for that time. I saw ticket #10659 and commit [cda7871] and decided to revert portions of the old code, that build an IconCache on the local frontend, but based on the new StorageGroup and the icons stored in the database without the (absolute)path, so that Icon-display wouldn't be broken an any remote-frontend independet of the local frontend Configuration-path.

So now I provide the patch. Perhaps it could be helpful for some other people.

[Shinck@…]

At remote-frontends cache ChannelIcons in an local folder

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Version information

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Annotation: The physical connection between WindowsXp-frontend and Mythbuntu10.04-backend is an Gigabit-Ethernet Link so this couldn't be an performance issue.

[Shinck@…]

Recently I switched from fixes/0.25 to master. The patch also works fine. So I will attach it here.

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Patch for master / 0.26-rc

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Version information 0.26

[stuartm]

The breakage is somewhere in the image cache, we shouldn't need a secondary cache just for icons so the patch, while appreciated, isn't going to be applied. Closing this as a duplicate of #10788 where we'll try to get at the root cause of the problem.