[mythtv] mythmusic question (again)

[Michael Kedl]

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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