MVP Response Speed w/SageMC...

[Stuntman]

Is there any way to speed up the response time of the MVP? I have 3 MVP's and am using the Hauppauge 45 button remotes.. the response time from button press to seeing it happen on Sage is prohibitively slow.. particularly in the menu system. Seems fairly responsive to playback requests.. but just navigating is painful!

Would perhaps using a non-stock background or some other such trick help? I've got the MVP's on a gigibit switched network.. all wired..

Thanks!!!

[matt91]

I have a similar problem too. Usually things work fine, but once every hour or two of use, it'll get 'stuck' and I'll have a ~10 second pause until all my key presses come though at once.

I too would appreciate any tweaks to speed up the 'remote > MVP > server > MVP > eyeball' loop.

Matt

[JParedis]

Originally Posted by Stuntman

Is there any way to speed up the response time of the MVP? I have 3 MVP's and am using the Hauppauge 45 button remotes.. the response time from button press to seeing it happen on Sage is prohibitively slow.. particularly in the menu system. Seems fairly responsive to playback requests.. but just navigating is painful!

Would perhaps using a non-stock background or some other such trick help? I've got the MVP's on a gigibit switched network.. all wired..

Thanks!!!

Had same issue, compared to Hauppauge software reaction times were slow. I did have a very good improvement with SageMC16x9 v6.11a in which the setup screen allows you to eliminate the menu animation - that one really slowed my system down

JPA

[AngelofDeth]

Do you use the default stv? I find the speed "normal", with the occasional blip/delay. SageMC I found to be slower than frozen molasses though...

[Stuntman]

Originally Posted by AngelofDeth

Do you use the default stv? I find the speed "normal", with the occasional blip/delay. SageMC I found to be slower than frozen molasses though...

I would LOVE to use the default STV, however it is pretty feature in-complete at the moment and it necessitates add-ins.. I'm hopefull Sage will continue to implement some of the amazing things their users have created.

I did find that by choosing a simple, low color background that the speed improved dramatically! Perhaps sage could consider a "MVP"??

There is still a lag in the menu system however and I get a 'caching' effect sometimes where I push a remote button and nothing happens.. so I hit it again and again and again.. then after about 5 seconds I get exactly that.. 3 button presses! DOH!

I live with it, but it is annoying.. and certainly nothing I see on the "Tivo" boxes..

[JUC]

I have found that if i am experiencing a hiccup--mostly in the guide--that if I go to the main menu and back again it speeds up....no clue why this works but it helps for me. YMMV
JUC

[Muchacho]

I noticed that the MVP seemed alot faster with the newer Java releases. Unfortunately I had issues with the ever increasing handle # and have had to switch back to the origional release.

[heffe2001]

If you search on the forums here about Java 6, the nightly builds improve the speed quite a bit. Made my PC client 2 or 3x as fast, and I'd say my MVP is as close to 'live' response as you can get now.

And the handle problem has been fixed if you get the nightly build. Still in beta, but it works .

[dagar]

Originally Posted by heffe2001

If you search on the forums here about Java 6, the nightly builds improve the speed quite a bit. Made my PC client 2 or 3x as fast, and I'd say my MVP is as close to 'live' response as you can get now.

And the handle problem has been fixed if you get the nightly build. Still in beta, but it works .

Do you experience the ... random acts of freezing for ~10-50 seconds with that rev of JRE 6b?

What is the CPU type/speed of your Sage server? ... I know, I know, that has nothing to do with it ...

[cmaffia]

Where can you download Java 6?

[Steep]

I'm guessing that the main problem for the slowness is the MVP Processing speed. The MVP is an actual computer (sort of), and it has a 350 MIPS IBM PowerPC Processor inside of it.

As a basis of comparison... a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 is capable of 1354 MIPS (Million Instrucions Per Second).

Sources: http://www.hauppauge.com/pdfs/mediamvp_specs.pdf
MIPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million...ons_per_second

[Stuntman]

Originally Posted by Steep

it has a 350 MIPS IBM PowerPC Processor inside of it.

Guess the next question is.. has anybody hacked this processor or is it even conceivable that this processor could be upgraded through a mod of some type??

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by dagar

Do you experience the ... random acts of freezing for ~10-50 seconds with that rev of JRE 6b?

What is the CPU type/speed of your Sage server? ... I know, I know, that has nothing to do with it ...

Sorry I didn't come back on the thread, but no, don't think I've seen the freezing.

As for my server, it's in my sig .