User

03.12.2007 20:40:32

Hi!

I'm using an iMac G4 700MHz as my living room entertainment system. Most of the time, I use EyeTV. When EyeTV is running fullscreen and I open the menu, it responds slooooowly (well, no wonder on that rather weak graphics hardware).

Anyway, I'd like to disable the menu animation in order to have a "static" menu. Maybe, disabling transparency would have the same effect on performance?

As it is now, the menu will respond on a command every one or two seconds, which is too slow for me ;)

Any hints?

Greetings 
Steffen 

User

04.12.2007 13:43:01

Remote Buddy is already very efficient regarding its drawing and on 
screen operations. The animations are in fact not static, but have 
clock-based begin and end points, so that on a busy computer (and 
watching TV fullscreen on a G4/700 certainly makes this computer very 
busy) less animation steps are performed - down to two steps (original 
step, final step - i.e. no transition is rendered at all) on the 
G3/600 machine I use for low-end performance tests.

I fear there's little I can do. If your machine does not have enough 
performance left while watching fullscreen TV, the only way to change 
this is to switch to a machine with more CPU and memory resources.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

18.01.2008 11:40:28

I've installed the most recent version (is it 1.8.5?) just yesterday and I have to say I'm impressed! I don't know what you've did, but performance was vastily improved! Now it works almost fluent on my iMac (but hey, it's still a 700 MHz machine).

Many thanks!

Steffen