STV GUI uses 100% CPU

[jervin]

Hi folks,

I have isolated a strange problem. I've been dealing with a very sluggish
SageTV user interface for a while, but just today I isolated the specific
actions that cause the issue.

First, I'm running SageTV 6.3.10.166 and java 1.6.0_11 on Windows XP pro.
The machine was built clean to run SageTV and doesn't have a lot of other
junk on it.

I've been using SageTV for a year or so and have been loving it, but I've had
occasional grief with the UI getting wedged, and today I figured out one specific
thing that seems to cause it major grief.

If I go to "SageTV Recordings" and use the mouse or haupphauge remote to
hover over an icon for a *group* of recordings, then the CPU utilization goes
to 100% immediately. If I hover over an icon that represents only a single recording,
the CPU utilization stays low.

Similarly, if I click into a group of recordings, SageTV brings up the video options
menu, where normally I would select "browse recordings", but in this menu the
CPU utilization is pegged at 100%.

I've tried bumping up the JVM heap, but it hasn't helped. Similarly, I've tried
modifying pretty much everything I could find in the Detailed Setup menus to no
avail.

The problem is very specific to mousing or remoting over the icons that represent
a collection of videos (i.e. like 10 episodes of Nova). zoom! 100% CPU.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Joe

[GKusnick]

There's an animated thumbnail slideshow that plays in the preview panel when you highlight a group of recordings. That could be the cause of your issue. Make sure you have 3D acceleration enabled, and if that doesn't help, try turning off animations.

[jervin]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the reply, but I've tried that already.

I've tried animations enabled/disabled, vmr9 versus overlay,
3D acceleration on versus off, and also in the "SageTV Recordings"
menu itself you can change whether it should display the video group as
icons or just a text list. Doesn't matter. Even with the video groups listed
as text, if I mouse over it or highlight it with the remote, the CPU goes
to 100%.

Note that I can mouse over (or highlight with the remote) items on the
list that represent individual videos and that does not cause any undue
CPU utilization. It's only the list items that represent a *group* of videos
that causes the 100% cpu utilization.

Help!

Joe