[mythtv-users] LiveTV Hangs

[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>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.
>
>
I can confirm that the latest 0.24-fixes,  v0.24-151-g1a69c92, has fixed the
LiveTV hanging.

Mike - Thanks for the information and thanks to all the developers that
found and fixed this issue.

Clifford
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