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

[Mike McMullin]

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >  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

  Sorry if this breaks threading, I didn't see Mike's reply until this
posting.

  I've got an Huappauge PVR-150 doing this exact same hehaviour, and an
nVidia video card.