[mythtv-users] "Please Wait" no longer appearing when playing recordings?

[John Veness]

On 12/02/11 19:16, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> The playback startup was changed significantly--to be /much/ faster,
> because it's no longer hammering the database before startup--in
> unstable/development and the fix backported to 0.24-fixes.  This changed
> timing within the application.  And, AIUI, since the Please Wait screen
> has /always/ been a little finicky (appearing for some users and not for
> others), this just means that with the changes in timing, you've
> switched from the "appearing" group to the "not" group.

Thanks Michael. For me, the overall delay in starting playback seems 
much the same as before (5 seconds or so), but previously I saw "Please 
Wait" pretty much immediately after pressing Return and now I don't see 
it at all. So I guess, as you say, that I've moved from one group to the 
other.

I don't know if it's related to this recent commit, but I have had a few 
frontend hangs since the "Please Wait" screen disappeared. The hangs 
seem to happen if I press a key in the few seconds after pressing Return 
to start playback of a recording but before playback starts. This tends 
to happen now because of the lack of feedback as I'm not sure if the 
initial Return was registered. For example, if I press Return a second 
time, or if I press Esc after pressing Return, or if I press a cursor 
key after Return, then the frontend will often (not always) hang.

This has happened about 6 times in the last couple of days. I don't know 
if this problem happened before the commit, as I don't recall pressing 
Return twice, or pressing Return then a cursor key, when the "Please 
Wait" screen was displayed.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T