Movie Wiz is slow for me....

JavaWiz · 2008-07-14, 08:02 PM

Dan Soussi Wrote:Hi JW,

I did a couple of tests and captured the corresponding log file.

Event 1
I did not wait for the MW background load to complete and seleted MW plugin. It displayed the status message "Plugin initialization in progress ...", paused for a few seconds and completed normally. All movies were displayed under category "What's New".
Changing to category "All Movies" caused a memory usage growth of 800MB (total memory now 2.3GB) and throws the error:

Error translating column image. Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryExeption' was thrown.
Must kill PVRX2 to recover. :eek:

Event 2
I waited for the background load to complete. This was maybe 6 secs. Selecting the MW plugin I get all movies listed under category "What's New". Selecting category "All Movies" causes the same memory error and gets stuck. Must kill PVRX2 to recover. :eek:

I appreciate your focus on improving your plugin. I hope this helps with your debugging?

Cheers,
Dan

I never quite understood your memory consumption issue til now. I always store my images outside of the db (ie on local hd or via url), you have choosen to store physical image in the db. The program loads the image into memory (rather than just the filename or URL), so that is why memory goes up so dramatically.

I will look at making a change to ONLY pull the image from the db if it is to be displayed, rather than loading all of them in memory (duh, should have done this from the beginning).

I will be out of town for about a week though, so not sure if I'll be able to get this done before I go.

hakras · 2008-07-14, 09:04 PM

JavaWiz Wrote:Try this version, should handle the startup (especially after exiting and re-entering the pluging).

I installed and tested this earlier today. It seems to be working MUCH better. It loads in less than 5 seconds and all my movies are now showing up. I will need to test a bit more, but so far it seems GREAT!!!

Thank you

JavaWiz · 2008-07-15, 02:50 AM

Dan Soussi Wrote:....
Changing to category "All Movies" caused a memory usage growth of 800MB (total memory now 2.3GB) and throws the error:

Error translating column image. Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryExeption' was thrown.
Must kill PVRX2 to recover. :eek:
...

Ok, I've made a version of MovieWiz that attempts to do a 'lazy load' of the image if it is stored in the db. It will only retrieve the image to memory when you visit that item for that image.

You should see your memory consumption be dramatically less. Please also test the config program by loading and editing existing entries to make sure I have not screwed anything up (before this test, you may want to backup your existing db).

Dan Soussi · 2008-07-15, 06:47 AM

Hi MW,

There's some amazing improvements in 1.0.17.3. The memory demands have significantly reduced.

The plugin is faster in all respects. Even switching between categories is great.

I also noticed speed improvements with MW Manager. Selecting "Manage Categories" is dodgy. It appears to "flicker". The Windows desktop also does wierd things at the same time. The desktop icons flash, too. I don't use this tab, so not a big deal for the moment. Otherwise the MW Manager appears to work OK.

This is the best update, yet! Awesome! Big Grin

I'll do some more testing and let you know.

Cheers,
Dan

JavaWiz · 2008-07-15, 02:46 PM

Dan Soussi Wrote:Hi MW,

There's some amazing improvements in 1.0.17.3. The memory demands have significantly reduced.

The plugin is faster in all respects. Even switching between categories is great.

I also noticed speed improvements with MW Manager. Selecting "Manage Categories" is dodgy. It appears to "flicker". The Windows desktop also does wierd things at the same time. The desktop icons flash, too. I don't use this tab, so not a big deal for the moment. Otherwise the MW Manager appears to work OK.

This is the best update, yet! Awesome!

I'll do some more testing and let you know.

Cheers,
Dan

Excellent! I'll take a look at MW Manager to see if I can clean up the flicker problem.

hakras · 2008-07-17, 10:05 AM

I haven't used gbpvr for a couple of days. Last night, I powered up the PCH and went into gbpvr. When I opened MW, there was nothing in there. I went out and went back in and still nothing. I didn't go any further with it. I watched some recorded shows and went to bed. As I'm typing this, I went into WM from my client PC. When I go into MW, I get a plug in initialization message that lasts a few seconds and then everything works great. I don't get that on the PCH. It immediately goes into MW with no data being displayed. :confused:

JavaWiz · 2008-07-17, 04:48 PM

hakras Wrote:I haven't used gbpvr for a couple of days. Last night, I powered up the PCH and went into gbpvr. When I opened MW, there was nothing in there. I went out and went back in and still nothing. I didn't go any further with it. I watched some recorded shows and went to bed. As I'm typing this, I went into WM from my client PC. When I go into MW, I get a plug in initialization message that lasts a few seconds and then everything works great. I don't get that on the PCH. It immediately goes into MW with no data being displayed. :confused:

I don't have a PCH, so cannot recreate the problem. Did MovieWiz ever work on your PCH?

If you could post your logs, I'll take a look.

hakras · 2008-07-17, 05:22 PM

Yes. That is the strange part about it. I was able to go in and see everything a couple of days ago. I went back in yesterday and gbpvr opened fine. When I tried to get back into MW, the page comes up with no data. I tried to get on this morning and gbpvr won't come up at all. Obviously, that part is not related to MW. I will post in the PCH section about that. I am at work right now Wink

so I won't be able to zip the logs. When I get home, I will restart the PCH. Then, I will go into gbpvr. Once I recreate the problem, I'll zip the log files and post.

Thanks

hakras · (This post was last modified: 2008-07-18, 02:41 PM by hakras.)

The problem I'm having on the PCH seems to be with MW. I ended up disabling the plugin and my PCH connected to gbpvr with no problems. I posted this issue with logs in the NMT section and sub said there were a lot of MW entries. I'm not sure if he was able to pinpoint a problem or not. Here is a link to the post: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post287476

I guess for now I'm going to have to go with the original dll (1.0.17.1) until this gets resolved. Version 1.0.17.3 works great on my client PC, but I only use that machine for testing and occassional dvr scheduling. The PCH is my viewing machine. If you work on resolving this and need it tested, I would definitely test. I really would like to be able to use this plugin with my PCH.

Dan Soussi · 2008-07-18, 02:53 PM

Hi JW,

I suspect that MW (first noticed in 1.0.17.3) often prevents PVRX2 from closing properly on Exit. I am finding PVRX2 still running in Task Manager without a visible window. Killing the remains of PVRX2 via Task Manager is sufficient to allow PVRX2 to restart.

Can anyone verify seeing this quirk?

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