[mythtv-users] Yellow dot and technical problem when watching recordings

[Andre Newman]

On 26 Nov 2013, at 13:03, Andrew Berridge <andrew.berridge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I've searched for this but not found anything…

I recognise it...

> 
> On some of my frontends (and it seems to be only on those that are remote from the backend), I get the following message when playing back recordings:
> 
> "Due to a technical problem, we are unable to carry out your request at this time. We apologise for any inconvenience."
> 
> There is also a yellow dot in the bottom right-hand corner of the message window, with "back" next to it.

In the UK this is usually a red dot, I think this is an interactive TV service that was recorded along with the programme and perhaps whatever it linked to is no longer there. I have had much the same experience but with the red dot, interactive TV is called "red button" services here.

You can switch off interactive services in the frontend menu, so it's quite possible you have one frontend with it on and one with it off.

Apparently it's in:

Utilities/Setup -> Setup ->TV-Settings->Playback Onscreen Display.

Once in there, simply clear the tick/check in the the ‘Enable Interactive TV’ setting. 

Andre

> 
> Any suggestions? It's annoying because once this has popped up, if I press F4 for Yellow, a message shows in the top-right hand corner of the screen saying "Please wait..." 
> 
> I wait for a bit, then the original message comes back. 
> 
> The only way to get out of this is to press Esc to exit the recording. It does seem to affect some of my older recordings (4+ years old). I have rerun mythcommflag --rebuild on an example file, but to no effect.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
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