[mythtv] weird interlacing flips at the top of the screen

Thu May 19 02:10:59 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:01 -0400, Robert Nelson wrote:
> Using the PVR-350 for about one month, no probs up till last night... 
> I was watching a pre-recorded episode of Family Guy and the top four
> or five inches started to flicker with a white  color with black boxes
> inside it...  Don't know if this is the FB or if it is actually an
> interlacing issue...  Tried transcoding to see if it would fix it, but
> no luck...  any ideas?
This sounds like VBI data. It seems to happen with some version ivtv.
The quickest solution is to just use some overscan.

-- Daniel