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

[Mike McMullin]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 00:40 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
> > 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.

  Disregard this please, wrong reply to the wrong posting.  :(