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[Francesco Fumanti <francesco.fumanti@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Michael Lamothe wrote:
> Yes, this is a known issue.  I originally had set Me TV to only load 100
> channels max but then I had a request to "relax" that constraint.  Me TV
> is simply not designed for large channel lists, the EPG cannot handle
> it.  I haven't isolated where the time is being used up but I imagine
> that generating 3000 buttons isn't a quick process.
> 
> I should re-enable the 100 channel constraint which would resolve this
> bug.  There is no solution for this issue other than your blueprint
> which is to have bouquets of channels selectable in the interface.

Why not detaching the epg from the channel list and create a separate 
window for the comprehensive epg?

You might object that people might want to see the epg when zapping!? In 
case of zapping, only load the few first entries of the epg from the 
newly zapped channel...

I don't think that the creation of bouquets will not solve the problem 
of the 3000 entries channel list because:
- me-tv will have to handle that list in the interface to create the 
bouquets
- the user should also have the possibility to use the full channel list 
to switch channels; preferably with a search/filter input field.

Finally for your information: kaffeine does not have any problem with a 
3000 entries channel list.

Cheers

Francesco

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me-tv unresponsive when using a big channels.conf
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Status in Me TV, it's TV for me computer: Confirmed

Bug description:
Ubuntu 8.10 development version
Me-TV 0.5.33
DVB-S card 

When using dvb-s, Astra 19.2 east and Hotbird 13e are two satellite positions that are widely used in Western Europe. Each of these satellites broadcasts over 1000 channels.

Me-Tv becomes quite unresponsive when using a huge channel-list; it takes very long to start up; opening the EPG takes very long,... 

A work around for the user is to only keep the few channels that are of interest to him in the channel list; but I hope that it will be possible to really speed up the channel handling. (Maybe that it will require separating channel switching and epg)