horrible lags, not sure why

[hunter186]

I've just installed Boxee on Dell notebook, running Ubuntu Hardy. The machine is a Dell e1505 (Core Duo 1.84, GMA 950, 2 gigs memory). Compiz is not running.

Synaptic reports Boxee version 0.9-r3927.

Everything installed OK, but Boxee is too slow to be usable. After pressing any key, there is a 4-6 second lag. The mouse is too slow to be usable. Things seem to work, but I'm not quite that patient. :)

I'd assumed this hardware would handle Boxee with no problem. Any idea what might be wrong?

[hunter186]

I tried launching Boxee from terminal, and had the same behavior. Here is the terminal output after launching and then exiting:


21/10/08 10:07:29#DEBUG#bxbgprocess.cpp:142(Start)#bg process initialized. 1 worker threads created.
21/10/08 10:07:29#DEBUG#bxcurl.cpp:63(Initialize)#curl initialized. version <7.18.0>

Running Boxee test...
And the log goes to... /tmp/hunter186-
is rtorrent running: 0
stopping rss...
stopping file scanner...
stopping torrent client...
stopping boxee...
Boxee: asked to stop
Stopping boxee background processor
BXBGProcess, Boxee Feed Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x903f11c
Stopping metadata engine
BXMetadataEngine: asked to stop
BXMetadataEngine: already stopped
stopping watchog...
Application: delete item loader...
BXBGProcess, Directory Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x94dade4
BXBGProcess, Item Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x94dad78
BXBGProcess, Directory Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x94dade4
BXBGProcess, Item Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x94dad78
Boxee: asked to stop
Boxee: already stopped
BXBGProcess, Resolver Audio Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x903f660
BXBGProcess, Resolver Video Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x903f5f4
BXBGProcess, Boxee Feed Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x903f11c
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8faab0c
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8faab0c

[Apek]

Try turning off vsync in the guisettings.xml config file and see if there is any change

[hunter186]

That did it! Sorry to clutter the forums with an issue I should have found myself.

Thanks for the help.

[hamza]

Sorry but where is guisettings.xml ?!!!

[vulkan]

you can play with vsync mode from settings now. settings->appearance->screen

[delly]

My media center computer is fairly old, a AthlonXP 3000+, and Hulu.com videos are running unbearably slow. While internet video is playing, the Boxee and the flvplayer processes each take 50% of CPU load, so I'm wondering if there's anything I can do in order to get watchable video. Internet connection isn't a problem, since hulu plays fine on my other computers. As it is, I'm running at a mere 800x600.

I'd really like to avoid having to replace this old computer, since it would be dumb to upgrade a computer with Socket A and AGP.

[agentlame]

i don't know that there is much you can do, at the moment.

there are two things team-boxee needs to do to make hulu reasonable on linux, imo:

switch to flash 10 (just released, i'm sure they will, soon.)
offer an option to use the 320p stream. (as it stands boxee defaults to the 420p stream on everything except the atv.)

[yuvalt]

boxee is using flash 10 in the current build. regarding the 320p -- we're still looking how to integrate the User Profile in Hulu to boxee.

[jordey24]

Sorry but where is guisettings.xml ?!!!
I assume you're on Ubuntu,then you can find the file at: ~/.boxee/UserData/
For Mac :~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/
Hope that helped ;)
-Jordey24

[delly]

Is there a way to reduce the boxee process' CPU usage when idle? For me, it's at 25-40% when it's just sitting there at any of the screens.

GL on my computer is working properly and everything. Go fig.

[humphnor]

Try turning off vsync in the guisettings.xml config file and see if there is any change

So I scanned my system and I don't have guisettings.xml anywhere on my system.

However I am having the same slowness issues.

[DarwinW13]

So I scanned my system and I don't have guisettings.xml anywhere on my system.

However I am having the same slowness issues.

The file is spelled guiSettings.xml, with a capital S.

[rodgersmc]

Same problem. Boxee is extremely slow. I can't get past the first splash screen, mouse lags when I try to move it, etc.

And - I've searched for the guiSettings.xml as well, and don't seem to have one on my file system.

Ubuntu 8.04

[DarwinW13]

The file is spelled guiSettings.xml, with a capital S.

Sorry, it was late at night and the screen was a log way away... it is indeed a lowercase 's'.

I have this lag problem sometimes as well, though turning off vsync did seem to help, when I get it I just have to exit out of boxee and restart, sometimes more than once, but eventually it works again.... until I try to play MP3s... then my mouse and keyboard are practically unusable until I hit 'x' to stop the playback.

[csselement]

any solution other than v-sync? that hasn't helped me.

Dell D410 / Ubuntu