Pause when turning over channel

Is this on all channels or one's that require a card or share to open???

Quote from Dave20

Hi
No its on every channel I turn to.. And yes I've installed picons I think their on the HDD.. Sorry I'm a bit of a newbie.

Thats why then, storing picons on a HDD causes the HDD to have to spin up on every channel change, this can easily add a 5 second lag to channel zapping times.

Ok so you have two options here....

1. Install the picon folder in the internal flash memory of the box. If you don't have many plugins etc installed on your box this will work fine. It should be placed in usr/share/enigma2

2. The recommended option would be to mount a usb flash drive to your box and install the picon folder there. it should be placed in media/usb

If you haven't done so already make a backup of your picon folder from the HDD using a FTP program or dcc control centre, do this before you delete it from the HDD. You can copy the folder over to your desktop and then ftp it from there to either the internal flash or usb stick.

You need to FTP into your box and check bud,

If they are installed in internal flash you will see the picon folder in usr/share/enigma2

Or if they are on your HDD you will see the picon folder in media/hdd

If you can connect by ftp download the picon folder from the hdd to your desktop before you delete it...

Then if you want to install picons from a addons panel to the internal flash then go ahead.

Did you do a full restart after making the changes.... it would be worth your while investing in a usb stick to save all your epg data & picons too. Also setup a swapfile as this will help lessen the load should your ram be close to maxing out.

Make sure the stick is formatted to fat32 before you plug it in, when you have done this press the blue button on your remote and select Vix. Press the down arrow and select mount manager, in here you should see your HDD & usb stick and what they are mounted as.... the mount for the usb stick should be media/usb.

If the usb stick is mounted correctly then you will need to add your picon folder to it by ftp, when you have done this restart the box. To change where your epg data is stored go to menu/setup/system/epg/settings you can change the first setting for epg location to media/usb.

The most important part here is to make sure your usb stick is mounted correctly, Vu can be quite fussy about the make etc. Vix image automounts the hdd & usb for you so you just need to double check that it has mounted it to the correct location.

Picons are best stored on the flash of the receiver, it is by far the fastest available location but if thats not possible a USB stick is acceptable, but it will have to be inserted permanently.

EPG data is by far best stored on the internal HDD, it wont affect system performance in any way at all, EPG data is held in live memory aka the flash and only written to or read from the HDD at boot up and shutdown. There is no advantage to storing the EPG on a mounted USB stick but it will work happily if you do decide to use this location.

As i said earlier Picons stored on the HDD can account for that, EPG on the HDD wont affect it any way or the other, it's held in live memory the same as your bouquets / channel lists are.