[mythtv-users] "Please Wait" no longer appearing when playing recordings?

[John Veness]

On 15/02/2011 15:39, Mark Kendall wrote:
> On 15 February 2011 23:25, John Veness<John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk>  wrote:
>> But, I'm still not seeing any Please Wait message.
>
> It was only fixed around 12 hours ago in fixes/0.24

As of today, "Please Wait" is back for me - hurrah, many thanks!

Having said that, at least on the Mythbuntu theme, the transition from 
the menus to playback is not completely clean, and not quite how it was 
before. (Sorry if this sounds like complaining, but really I'm just 
trying to help!)

What's happening now is that I get the Please Wait screen with a fully 
black background, then then for a split second I see the theme 
background (with no Please Wait text or any other text) before playback 
starts. The split second of seeing the theme background is what is new, 
as it didn't do that previously - it used to go straight from the Please 
Wait with black background screen to playback.

As I say, I'm not complaining too much, but I wanted to mention it just 
so you were aware. This may be theme-dependent as I haven't tried with 
other themes, yet.

> For normal startup, the biggest delay is usually in
> ffmpeg scanning the file and initialising the decoders - which
> currently blocks the main thread. Hence there is no opportunity to
> refresh the display and provide animations etc at that point.

Thanks for the explanation, Mark. It would be nice to see some kind of 
animation but I appreciate this would a lot of work to add another 
thread etc.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T