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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Osho on January 21, 2007, 07:08:17 pm

Title: Disabling icons animation in theaterview?
Post by: Osho on January 21, 2007, 07:08:17 pm
Hi,

I notice that the icons animation in theater view is very slow on my computer. To draw a screen - it takes around 5 seconds from start of animation to end of it - which is too long IMHO. Is there a way to disable icons animation in theater view?

My computer has Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz, 512MB memory and ATI 128MB 9700Pro graphics card (1920 x 1080 resolution) running Windows XP SP2 with MC12 as the *only* application running. Is it reasonable to expect a PC with this spec to do the icons animation in theater view quickly (i.e. 1 second from start to finish of animation)? I also have another server PC which is Pentium 4 3.2 GHz (HT enabled), 1GB memory and ATI 1300 graphics card (1400x1050 resolution) and that does theater view icons animation quickly (~1 second).

thanks,
Osho
Title: Re: Disabling icons animation in theaterview?
Post by: bbrip on January 22, 2007, 09:10:09 am
Yes, this is a real drag, particulary if you run it thru a mediaserver.

it would be great if MC12 in one of the next upgrades could have an option to swith those icons of.

I just find them anoying in Theater View anyway - and they are a drag on resources.

BB
Title: Re: Disabling icons animation in theaterview?
Post by: Osho on January 22, 2007, 10:53:54 am
Quote from: bbrip on January 22, 2007, 09:10:09 am
it would be great if MC12 in one of the next upgrades could have an option to swith those icons of.

Actually, I want icons - they are helpful. I just don't want the icons animation. It would be great if there was an option for that.

thanks,
Osho
Title: Re: Disabling icons animation in theaterview?
Post by: glynor on January 22, 2007, 11:46:28 am
If you do a search you'll eventually find a quote from Matt where he stated that this request unfortunately isn't easy at all to accomplish.

I'm not sure why the animation performance is so terrible on the first machine Osho listed... I have machines with less power generally (though all of mine have at least 1GB RAM and slightly better video cards -- but only slightly), and they are able to handle it fine.  Unless it's the RAM difference, I don't see why you're seeing such dismal performance...