[mythtv-users] Watch TV hangs on Please Wait...

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/26/2011 08:32 PM, Kenni Lund wrote:
> 2011/1/27 Clifford Snow:
>> In the last few days, I keep getting "Please Wait ..." when going to Watch
>> TV.  MythTV successfully records all the schedule programs and allows
>> playback of the recorded items.  It seems to be just the Watch TV selection
>> that is not working.
> Just a "me too"...I had the *exact* same issue on one of my frontends
> after upgrading to latest 0.24-fixes yesterday (I think it was ~10
> days since the last upgrade), but i thought it was some local problem
> (I've had other unrelated problems recently). I did try out a lot of
> different things, but in the end I deleted all frontend settings, and
> all of my channels on the backend. After rescanning the channels and
> configuring audio and video on the frontend, the problem was solved -
> or at least it didn't occur any more.
>
> Someone who still has the issue should probably hook gdb into the
> process, to see what's going on.

Note, also, that it seems that 2 of our experts may be hot on the trail 
of fixing this issue.

Which capture devices are you all using?  They seem to have found an 
issue that may affect Live TV for all HD-PVR users (and possibly other 
slow-tuning devices).

Mike