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

[Clifford Snow]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 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).
>
> I am use Hauppauge HVR-1600 (2) capture cards.

The recommendation to rescan the channels sounds like a simple solution for
now.

Clifford
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