[mythtv-users] Please Wait... but audio plays

[Wayne Thomas]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:54 PM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:26 PM, MarcT <myrdhn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know under what conditions the "Please Wait..." screen will
>> show?
>>>
>>> I just started having this problem where the screen shows up and
>>> doesn't go away but the audio of the recording does start playing in
>>> the background. If I pause the video and press play again the video
>>> shows up.
>>>
>>> I'm on 0.23 and using VDPAU for playback.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David
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>>
>> David,
>>
>> I have this exact same problem (albeit on 0.22) with some .mp4 files
>> that I have imported into my recordings folder.  It seems to be linked
>> with disabling the Composite Extension in xorg.conf for me.  When I
>> comment out the 'Option "Composite" "Disable"' line the problem ceases
>> to exist.  Have you recently disabled composite?
>> Like me though, you would probably prefer to leave Composite disabled
>> for the improvement in playback quality.  Hopefully if this is related
>> someone in the know might be able to help out.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Wayne
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> It sometimes happens to me when in watch recordings or livetv on trunk.
>> The theme I use has some colors that match the overlay background so I can
>> see that he video is playing but the GUI hasn't cleared itself.
>> A change of channel or FFW/REW always fixes it for me.
>>
>> MarcT
>>
>
> I'm actually only having this problem on files that are not generated
> by my HD Homerun. My SD recordings and everything in MythVideo are
> exhibiting this problem. I did recently disable compositing, but
> things were working fine with that turned off until a few days ago.
> I'm wondering if it has anything to do with my playback profile...
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I have since un-disabled (new word!) composite for other reasons and I
have not experienced the problem since.  IIRC the problem only
occurred a few days after I made the change and wasn't reliably
unreliable :o)


Cheers
Wayne