id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 7611 VDPAU initialization failure causes unrecoverable hang Doug Goldstein Janne Grunau "Using 0-22-fixes r22840 for both the frontend and backend, which are on different hosts. The frontend is using Mythbuntu with the auto-build debs (hence the up to date package). After a while of the frontend being idle (i.e. the entire day while I'm at work) I'll go into the program listings and watch a recorded show. It will always say ""Please wait"" and permanently stay there until I kill it. The log message from the time I turn on the TV until when it hangs is.. {{{ 2009-11-16 19:35:15.367 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching WatchingPreRecorded 2009-11-16 19:35:15.484 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin 2009-11-16 19:35:16.073 AFD: Opened codec 0xce669b0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video) 2009-11-16 19:35:16.073 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels 2009-11-16 19:35:16.075 AFD: Opened codec 0xa5a8fb0, id(AC3) type(Audio) 2009-11-16 19:35:16.078 Opening audio device 'hdmi'. ch 2(2) sr 48000 2009-11-16 19:35:16.079 Opening ALSA audio device 'hdmi'. 2009-11-16 19:35:16.127 Mixer unable to find control Master 2009-11-16 19:35:16.128 Mixer unable to find control Master 2009-11-16 19:35:16.128 Mixer unable to find control PCM 2009-11-16 19:35:16.128 Mixer unable to find control PCM 2009-11-16 19:35:16.128 Mixer unable to find control Master 2009-11-16 19:35:16.128 Mixer unable to find control Master 2009-11-16 19:35:16.128 Mixer unable to find control Master 2009-11-16 19:35:16.734 VidOutVDPAU Error: Failed to initialise VDPAU 2009-11-16 19:35:16.749 VideoOutput, Error: Not compiled with any useable video output method. 2009-11-16 19:35:16.749 NVP(2), Error: Couldn't create VideoOutput instance. Exiting.. 2009-11-16 19:35:16.749 Unable to initialize video. 2009-11-16 19:35:36.620 playCtx, Error: StartDecoderThread() Failed to startdecoder 2009-11-16 19:35:36.620 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- end error 2009-11-16 19:35:36.624 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1 }}} I've let it sit there for up to 5 minutes and nothing else ever appears in the logs. Really 2 fixes need to happen, a graceful fall back and potentially fixing the situation that causes the initialization to fail." defect closed minor 0.22.1 MythTV - Video Playback 0.22 medium duplicate 0