[mythtv-users] Mythtv usability, the Superbowl and a couple of issues

John Pham jdpdata at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 18:51:00 UTC 2011


On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 02/07/2011 12:24 PM, John Pham wrote:
>>> 4) After I caught up with realtime I wanted to switch to livetv. I  
>>> don't use LiveTV very often.  The screen froze at "Please wait"  
>>> and I was forced to kill the frontend and relaunch. Here is a snip  
>>> from my frontend log.
>> Live TV frozen at "Please Wait" is a known problem. I'm not sure if  
>> the dev are working on it. For now those of us that are affected by  
>> this issue will just have to wait for a fix. More here:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/469656?page=unread#unread
>>
>> To fix your channel icon issue, go here:
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_icons
>
> For all who are affected, you should update to the most-current 0.24- 
> fixes possible.  There's a good chance that most of the issues have  
> been fixed, now.  There may be one remaining issue--but it's only  
> likely to affect people who have extremely-slow-tuning capture  
> devices (like the HD-PVR and maybe some satellite/DiSEqC or  
> whatever) that take longer than maybe 7 seconds to tune.
>
> FWIW, Live TV channel and program changes are working fine on my  
> system and on another system I maintain (whose users actually still  
> use Live TV) with 0.24-fixes as of  
> 1a69c92db869ebb47b638404ac4fd1bb4078c584 , Sat Feb 5 03:45:09 UTC  
> 2011 a.k.a. Fri Feb  4 22:45:09 (US) EST 2011, a.k.a. Fri Feb  4  
> 19:45:09 (US) PST 2011.
>
> Mike
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WooHoo! That's great to hear!
FWIW, I did update my frontend yesterday right before the Super Bowl  
started.
I'm still having "Please Wait" hang.
Does the MythBuntu repos takes longer to see new updates?



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