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Hello- looking for help with a bug I am experiencing, any channel I add of a TV Show, Movie, or Directory is just getting stuck, frozen with the "Loading Channel..." Overlay. The channel is playing beneath it, but controls do not function and the overlay does not go away.

Here is the log:
http://pastebin.com/X2zX18d2

There appears to be an exception thrown at the end, and it aligns with the Simpsons episode where I experienced the issue (I intentionally did this in a fresh session to show you in the log)

Have been using PTVL for some time now, first started experiencing this issue in 0.54a and still here in 0.56. My HDHomerun upnp channels are working just fine still, but I cannot seem to add any channels with media from my library or I experience this "Loading Channel..." overlay and unresponsive controls. Only way out is to force quit XBMC (on mac OS X 10.10)

I've tried clearing my XBMC video DB. I've tried clearing my settings2.xml and adding only 1 channel for 1 tv show- same bug. I've added back my HDHomerun and USTVNow channels, and they work fine.

Hopefully that log file has the answer, the exception is pretty clear.

Let me know if I can provide any further info to help debug the issue. Thanks for your time.


Unrelated side note questions, if you have the time:

-Do other users of free ustvNow experience extremely choppy and lag playback? I have 50MB download speed, but the free USTVNow is really poor- wondering if this is just the case with the free service or not?

-I use HDHomerun with an antenna for local tv. Sometimes my signal isn't always great. When I experience "hiccups", I get a lot of horrible audio artifacts and glitchy sounds. When the signal recovers, everything is fine. Now, when I watch the same UPNP HDHomerun channel through VLC, when it experiences signal issues, it does not give any audio artifacts or glitches, it just goes nicely quiet. Any idea what it is about PTVL that causes that issue? Since I can't guarantee my signal, I wish PTVL would handle the situation nicely like VLC appears to. Anything I can do?

I'm a developer, so I don't mind technical speak or instructions to tinker in code.

Thanks!