[mythtv] mythmusic question (again)

[Michael J. Sherman]

No, that's not it, but I appreciate the suggestion.  Here's some more 
details of my experience with mythmusic:

1) I select "Music".
2) I select "Select Music" and can the configure my playlist.
3) I escape out of that and then select "Play Music".
4) At this point the music will start playing, but the GUI is locked. 
By that I mean any keyboard input does not result in immediate action, 
nor does the slider or time counter update.
5) After about 45 seconds of playing, the gui will update and move the 
slider instantaneously to the 45-second equivalent position.  The time 
count will also update to 00:45.
6) Any keyboard inputs are in fact queued, so they will all take effect 
immediately at that time.
7) A split second later it'll lock up again, and the time counter will 
be frozen at 00:45, but the music will continue to play just fine.
8) After another 30-45 seconds, the same thing happens. Continue until 
the music playlist is done.

So, basically, if I were to play a 5-minute song, I would only be able 
to see GUI updates and interact with it at about the 45-second mark, the 
1:30 mark, the 2:15 mark, etc.  So if I'm playing a song and I want to 
quit out, I can hit escape, but I have to wait for the next GUI update 
for that escape key event to actually reach the playback box and quit 
playing.


Michael Kedl wrote:
> Well, since you're pleading I'll just throw out an obvious check.
> 
> Make sure you have the screensaver and dpms turned off or your screen
> will blank/freeze. I had to do that on my living room box after the wife
> couldn't figure out why it went blank....
> 
> I doubt this is your problem, but who know?
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:12, Isaac Richards wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:54 pm, Michael J. Sherman wrote:
>>
>>>I still can't figure out why the mythmusic GUI locks up while the sound
>>>continues to play just fine.  I'm guessing it has to do with the (lack
>>>of) dispatching status update events to the PlaybackBox.  I cannot
>>>figure out what would block those events.  I have two machines I'm using
>>>right now for testing.  It works fine on one, but the GUI locks on the
>>>other.  The same software seems to be installed on both.  I even took
>>>the mythmusic executable from the working machine to run it on the other
>>>machine, but it still locked, so it seems to be a system configuration
>>>issue outside of the mythmusic program itself.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to track down this problem, and I'm to the point of pleading.
>>>  Can someone please suggest a possible line of investigation?
>>
>>I'm sorry, but without being able to reproduce this, I really don't have any 
>>idea why it'd happen.
>>
>>Isaac
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