Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] Very slow

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 06:08:29 -0800

On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Dan Hackley <[email-masked]> wrote:

> My files are stored on a NAS accessed via wifi. When I had only 1 folder (approx 30 movies) added to Usher, it seemed to work OK. Can't Usher manage large movie collections on NAS?

Per our email discussion, the NAS (indirectly) and QuickTime (directly) are responsible for the problem: I imagine these are non-native QuickTime file formats, so they have to go through a third-party QuickTime add-on (Flip4Mac or Perian), both of which really slow down the process of getting movie info into Usher. Combine that with Usher not being written with networked drives in mind, and there's way too much activity going on across the network for you to have a decent experience.

When we get to the next major release of Usher, we'll do our best to make networked drives work much better in Usher.

-rob.

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From: Dan Hackley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 23:47:54 -0800 (PST)

I'm having the same problem; latest version of Usher on Macbook Air 2013 
i5. Guessing around 3000 movies (though menu says 12000 but is counting all 
the non-movie files). Mixed file types. Progress bar in bottom right has 
finished updating the library. 

Still runs extremely slow - even editing metadata for a file takes ages - 
when I have edited it and click ok, I get the spinning ball for 47 seconds 
approx, before the edit has completed.

My files are stored on a NAS accessed via wifi. When I had only 1 folder 
(approx 30 movies) added to Usher, it seemed to work OK. Can't Usher manage 
large movie collections on NAS?

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From: Winston Baccus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT)

I see a similar slowdown in a library with 100 or so videos. Sometimes 
Usher will take a long time to respond when I right click on a movie to 
delete it. Frequent beachballs.

On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 11:12:12 AM UTC-6, Bastien wrote:
>
> Hello everybody, 
>
> I tried demo Usher and I are really good except for one thing. 
> It is very very slow, I often have to wait 5 minutes after click a 
> folder to open them. 
>
> Is it because of the number of my videos (about 3000)? 
>
> Thank you in advance. 
> Greetings

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:34:07 -0800

On Mar 2, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Bastien Hug wrote:

> Hi, I don't see the small progress bar and it is the folder in my defined Usher Library.
> Have you already test Usher with about 3000 movies ?

We have many users with that many movies or more, and we've not had any complaints about multiple minutes to simply open the folder.

What format (mov, mp4, mkv, etc.) are your movies in? Is there one main one, or is it a mix?

-rob.

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From: Bastien Hug <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:04:33 +0100

Hi, I don't see the small progress bar and it is the folder in my defined
Usher Library.
Have you already test Usher with about 3000 movies ?

Thanks

2011/3/2 Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>

> On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Bastien wrote:
>
> In the lower right corner of the Usher window, do you see a small progress
> bar? If so, that means that Usher is still processing your movies, which
> might explain some of the slowdown. Also, how did you get this folder into
> Usher? Drag and drop, or is it in your defined Usher Library folder?
>
> thx;
> -rob.
>
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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:50:30 -0800

> Is it because of the number of my videos (about 3000)?

In the lower right corner of the Usher window, do you see a small progress bar? If so, that means that Usher is still processing your movies, which might explain some of the slowdown. Also, how did you get this folder into Usher? Drag and drop, or is it in your defined Usher Library folder?

thx;
-rob.

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From: Bastien <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:12:12 -0800 (PST)

Hello everybody,

Thank you in advance.
Greetings