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

Chris Porter hoodlum7 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 05:55:40 UTC 2011


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).
>
> Mike
>
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I have noticed the "Please wait issue", but my issue seems to be associated
with using VDPAU and an Nvidia 8400GS video card. I have switched to using a
different video card and so far my issue has gone away.
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