Disable TV show thumbnails in guide?

[Biffo]

My guide is back to scrolling very slowly after thumbnails load and very fast before they do load. Last time this happened I deleted the channel db to fix it but this time no dice. It isn't the drive since it is SSD.

Anyway, I want to prevent the thumbnails from loading so guide scrolls without issue. Hoping there is a registry setting for this!

[STC]

Scrolling should always be fast, logos or no logos.
I have 200+ active channels on my guide and it scrolls very well on my HTPC. Not so much on extenders but that is to be expected.
Can you give more information about your setup and your problem?

[Biffo]

STC, scrolling has been very fast for me for years. Whatever the cause it has to do with the loading of the shows thumbnails in the guide because before they are loaded scrolling is very fast.

System is just a win7 on an SSD w/ I5 3570K and 8gigs of 1600 RAM.

[holidayboy]

Do you mean the TV series thumbnails that appear at the bottom of the guide page next to the show details? I've never noticed lag when I've enabled them via 3rd party epg software (we don't get them by default in the UK).

[Biffo]

That is what I mean, holidayboy. there is like a 60-90 second delay of them appearing and then there is like a half ms delay when try to scroll past each one.

[richard1980]

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... f=5&t=2455

[Biffo]

That didn't work in this case.

[holidayboy]

I think that in order to stop the thumbs from displaying, you'd need to somehow remove the data from the guide download before it was imported into the db.

I guess you could use mc2xml and then edit out the data, then import it..... A lot of work!!!

[richard1980]

And it doesn't really solve anything. There is a reason why the issue occurs, and to solve the issue you must find out why it occurs. I wasn't able to find out why the issue was occurring when it happened to me, and as a result I had no choice but to re-install Windows, which promptly made the issue go away.

[barnabas1969]

And it doesn't really solve anything. There is a reason why the issue occurs, and to solve the issue you must find out why it occurs. I wasn't able to find out why the issue was occurring when it happened to me, and as a result I had no choice but to re-install Windows, which promptly made the issue go away.

Wow, really? Did you do any monitoring with the Windows Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, or similar software? I'm surprised that you, Richard, were unable to figure it out.

Really... I'm not making fun of you. I have a lot of respect for you. I view you as being one of the most knowledgeable people on this site... because of your willingness to research an issue until you find a valid answer.

[richard1980]

I had a problem with ehshell.exe causing excessive CPU usage. I'm not sure if the high CPU usage was related to the guide stuttering. I certainly don't like "fixing" the problem the way I did, but I simply failed to find the root cause.

[holidayboy]

I guess that the thumbnails in the US get cached somewhere?

The app that I use to enable thumbs downloads the artwork to a local folder and then references those files in the guide data that gets imported.

I wonder if the cache could have become corrupted or something?

Pure idle guess work as usual!

[Biffo]

Just ran disk clean-up and selected delete thumbnails and that seems to have fixed it. Might be related to holidayboy's thoughts.

[richard1980]

Glad you got it solved...I tried many things and never could solve the problem. Perhaps there is more than one thing that causes this?

[Biffo]

Glad you got it solved...I tried many things and never could solve the problem. Perhaps there is more than one thing that causes this?

No doubt about that, Richard.