[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.26 hangs on playback displaying "Please Wait"

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 9 August 2013 10:41, Mark Goldberg <marklgoldberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a crash of the myth backend while recording from an hdpvr. Since
> then, the backend seems to work, recording shows OK, but the frontend
> hangs when trying to play any video.
> It displays "Please Wait" and never does anything else. I have to kill it.

> FileRingBuf(/video/recordings/5105_20130808050200.mpg):
> OpenFile(/video/recordings/5105_20130808050200.mpg, 2000 ms)
> 2013-08-08 17:27:40.049378 I [7736/7736] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:5203
> (StartPlayer) - TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin
> 2013-08-08 17:27:40.049445 I [7736/7736] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:5207
> (StartPlayer) - TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor was called: 202
> ms

Have you changed anything else in between?
Is this for a frontend/backend combined machine?

if not, have you mounted the recording directory on the frontend
machine? trying unmounting it...