[mythtv-users] Please wait screen occasionally stays visible during playback (VDPAU)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/20/2010 10:30 PM, Michael Lynch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>   
>> When I start playback, the "Please Wait" screen appears while the
>> video is getting ready to play. Typically that disappears as soon as
>> playback actually begins. However, occasionally it will stay visible
>> even after playback begins. I will not be able to see the video play,
>> but I can hear the audio playing. If I pause and unpause it, the
>> screen goes away and everything is normal.
>>
>> Before I file a bug report (I've got a "-v playback " log) I wanted to
>> know if anybody else has experienced this. I was wondering if perhaps
>> this is a VDPAU configuration issue rather than a problem in myth
>> directly. I can only replicate this condition while using a VDPAU
>> profile. Also, I've noticed that occasionally, if I open another
>> window in front of myth (like a bash terminal) while it is playing
>> video, after I close that window I can still see the window over top
>> of the video. It's like there is an overlay that never gets cleared
>> (not sure how VDPAU actually works, but that's what it reminds me of).
>> In that situation, I've also found that if I pause and unpause, the
>> phantom window goes away, exactly like the Please Wait screen does.
>>
>> Any idea what may be causing this...perhaps a xorg.conf setting?
> I have also experienced this, but no VDPAU on my box.  Just a standard
> .22 frontend with an NVIDIA MX4 4000 and CPU-- playback profile.  I
> can also provide logs if needed.
>   

The issue alluded to http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/22350

Requires a pretty major refactoring of code that's on the TODO, but not
done.

Mike