[mythtv] mythmusic question (again)

[Michael J. Sherman]

Shuttle XPC SS40G  w/ Athlon XP 1700+
On-board SIS video
Creative Ensoniq sound card (PCI)
RedHat 8.1 beta
ATI Wonder TV VE (PCI)

Sound works perfectly with MythTV using the compiled Alsa 0.9.0rc7 
drivers.   Sound also works fine in MythGame.

I tried to run mythmusic in gdb last night but gdb complained about a 
thread library that it couldn't load.  Therefore I'm suspecting a 
problem with the glibc distribution with that Redhat 8.1 beta.  Tonight 
I'll be downgrading to the RedHat 8.0 release to see if that clears up 
the issue.  It would make sense that this thread locking issue is 
because of a bad set of thread libs, no? ;-)



Michael Kedl wrote:
> I must have missed it.  What kind of machine was this?  And it can play
> mythtv back ok?
> 
> Not one of those funky integrated video/audio deals is it?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:37, Michael J. Sherman wrote:
> 
>>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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