[mythtv-users] PVR-250 distortion/noise and black border

[David]

>I'm having two problems:
>
>First, I have a black border around the sides and bottom of my recordings.
>This happens at all resolutions. Example:
>http://autognosis.org/pvr250/720x480.jpg
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Where are you geographically - it looks like NTSC since it's 720x480
Are you recording from the s-video?
If not try plugging a dvd into the s-video and recording that.
Maybe the original video stream has the borders?

>[The reply that I received on my forum posted indicated that this is by
>design, so perhaps it's not actually an issue?]
>
>Second, on my secondary card (I have two cards in my machine), I
>consistently get strange "noise" in my video -- it appears as vertical
>stripes that go through the video and distorts the surrounding colors. It
>seems to affect reds the most.
>http://autognosis.org/pvr250/noise.jpg
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>
I had this problem recently
I notice it appears less on the 0.1.10 #71d driver.
There's some more about it on the ivtv list.
There's a possibility it's related to macrovision (mis)detection.

I think all these are ivtv issues rather than myth

see: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/IvTv for more links...

David