[mythtv] FW: [mythtv-users] CVS mythfrontend hangs upon entering"watch recordings"

[Asher Schaffer]

Yep, I have the same thing, just updated my CVS yesterday.  Once the
thumbnail has been generated for that recording you can move to and
from it fine, but when it first generates it, the machine hangs for a
couple of minutes.


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:13:37 -0500, William <wmunson at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to make sure you guys saw this over in the users list.
> 
> PS - Thanks for the fantastic job you people are doing on this project!
> 
> Bill
> >>
> >> It only happens when myth is currently recording something, and I
> >> have it setup where the first thing I see is the currently recording
> >> program. It completely locks the interface up.
> >>
> >> I started my mythfrontend with "-v
> >> playback,file,network,audio,commflag", and here is what the logs say:
> >>
> >> 2004-12-02 01:00:51.244 451     CHECK_RECORDING[]:[]Witch Hunter
> >> Robin[]:[]Prec...
> >> Error loading image file:
> >> /var/lib/mythtv/mythtv/share/mythtv/themes/default/1162_200412
> >> 02010000_20041202013000.nuv.png
> >> 2004-12-02 01:00:51.333 439     QUERY_GENPIXMAP[]:[]X
> >> Play[]:[][]:[][]:[]Comput...
> >>
> >> ...and never gets past there. I find this in the backend log during
> >> that time period:
> >>
> >> 2004-12-02 01:00:51.243 adding: myth as a client (events: 1)
> >> QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
> >> 2004-12-02 01:00:51.850 Initializing audio parms from stream #0.
> >>
> >> Almost as if the backend could care less the frontend is waiting for
> >> something.
> >>
> >
> > I am getting a similar problem. Every time I try to use the watch
> > recording
> > screen to select a recording the backend goes off into an extended
> > period of
> > hard drive thrashing which locks everything up for about 2 minutes.
> > Once
> > done, if I try to change the selected item, it does it all over again.
> > This
> > has crept into CVS in the last week.
> >
> Yah, same here. I'm only using thumbnail preview on watch recordings
> but when I select a
> recording that hasn't yet generated a thumbnail, it hangs. The ones
> with a thumbnail already
> generated work OK. This just started happening after updating CVS
> yesterday.
> 
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