Plugin :: Phoenix Fanart for SageTV V7

[bialio]

I suspect you are using Malore - I don't know if the Banner support there uses the cached images (I didn't do that plugin - in fact I don't think my plugin has any banner's in use) - so you might have an issue to talk with Fuzzy...(or maybe Diamond uses Banners also.....)

btl.

[Skirge01]

I'm using TVE, not Malore, but I saw the same slowdown mentioned when using Diamond, with or without banners enabled. The fact that it was in two separate plugins had me looking at BMT as the possible cause.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

I'm using TVE, not Malore, but I saw the same slowdown mentioned when using Diamond, with or without banners enabled. The fact that it was in two separate plugins had me looking at BMT as the possible cause.

I can assure you that BMT is not the cause, since it does nothing once fanart is downloaded, and it does not contribute anything to the UI.

It may be that the plugins are scaling the fanart the first time it is accessed, which will cause a slowdown the first time you go to the page... but it should only be the first time, and if plugins are scaling. If the plugins are not scaling, then it could be that the video memory on the extender is being maxed out, resulting in images being loaded and then unloaded to make memory.

Also, if you are loading fanart from a network share, then there could be some extra latency there as well.

Based on the error message that you provided, it would appear that the plugin is attempting to load a pre-cached image, but it is failing. That error may be normal, in that the plugin, when 'null' is returned will create the image, or it may be an error, and that the plugin requires that you pre-create the fanart cache. Every plugin is different, so it's hard to tell which it is. I only bailio's plugin, and I've never seen any noticable slowdowns using fanart, but my fanart is local as well.

[Fuzzy]

My Malore banners don't do any caching (unless Phoenix handles the caching behind the scenes in the API). I simply use the phoenix_api_GetFanartBanner(Object mediaObject) : String. I don't have an extender, so I've never concerned myself with performance/scaling/caching.

[Skirge01]

For me, this is on a full PC client, not an extender. 4GB of memory under 64-bit Windows 7, with a JVM Heap of 264/373/1024 at present. GbE connection is maxing out at a whopping 0.98% utilization and overall memory usage is at 2.15GB. CPU barely hits 50% usage. Maybe tmiranda or razrsharpe might be the right ones for me to ask about this. But, that still wouldn't explain why both Diamond and TVE exhibit the exact same behavior.

[SyrA]

I got the logs from Activating sagetv debut. Then look in the sagetv directory. I expiriense the same problem with both Phoenix fanart And Diamond theme. This appeard after upgrading to w7. Had good function in xp. Everything Else work soo good in w7, evr, audio, codecs, aso. Soo i wont be turning back to xp again. I suspect network issues with My setup in w7. Have tried everything on Google for those issues, but havent found a solution yet.

[bastafidli]

I am seeing the following exception in my logs after installing this plugin

Sat 1/15 21:18:57.624 [SageTV@16c9867] Calling start on plugin: Phoenix Core Services
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.699 [SageTV@16c9867] Done starting core plugins.
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.699 [PSNATMGR@155e402] Starting UPnP NAT Manager...
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] java.lang.NullPointerException
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.plugin.a.if(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.d.v$2.void(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.ay.a(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.e.a(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.SageTV.api(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.remote.EmbeddedSageAPIProvider.callService(EmbeddedSageAPIProvider.java:16)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.SageAPI.call(SageAPI.java:164)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.api.PluginAPI.GetAllAvailablePlugins(PluginAPI.java:51)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.phoenix.plugin.PhoenixPlugin.onPluginsLoaded(PhoenixPlugin.java:159)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.plugin.AbstractPlugin$1.run(AbstractPlugin.java:254)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at java.util.TimerThread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:58.282 [FileDownload@bb473b] Read -1 bytes from the URL stream; download has completed
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Any idea what might be causing it?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by bastafidli

I am seeing the following exception in my logs after installing this plugin

Sat 1/15 21:18:57.624 [SageTV@16c9867] Calling start on plugin: Phoenix Core Services
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.699 [SageTV@16c9867] Done starting core plugins.
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.699 [PSNATMGR@155e402] Starting UPnP NAT Manager...
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] java.lang.NullPointerException
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.plugin.a.if(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.d.v$2.void(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.ay.a(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.e.a(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.703 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sage.SageTV.api(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.remote.EmbeddedSageAPIProvider.callService(EmbeddedSageAPIProvider.java:16)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.SageAPI.call(SageAPI.java:164)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.api.PluginAPI.GetAllAvailablePlugins(PluginAPI.java:51)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.phoenix.plugin.PhoenixPlugin.onPluginsLoaded(PhoenixPlugin.java:159)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at sagex.plugin.AbstractPlugin$1.run(AbstractPlugin.java:254)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:57.704 [Timer-1@ed2cab] at java.util.TimerThread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 1/15 21:18:58.282 [FileDownload@bb473b] Read -1 bytes from the URL stream; download has completed
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Any idea what might be causing it?

The only thing that I can tell you is that this is happening from the GetAllPlugins call and that SageTV is throwing a Null Pointer Exception (for some reason). When all plugins are loaded, sagetv fires an event to let plugins know that everything is loaded. A plugin, such as phoenix core will hook into that even to do some post processing work.

I can put a try/catch around the block and just suppress the error, since there is no way for me to tell why it is dying. I'm not quite sure what the effects of the error may be as well.