[mythtv-users] Glitchy nvidia geforce4 tv-out

[Simon at the Threshold]

Gerald Schepens wrote:
> I have an nvidia geforce4 ti4200 connected vis svideo to my TV.  When I 
> watch anything that involves mplayer (i.e. live TV, recordings or DVDs), 
> I get semi-rhythmic glitchy motion in the video.  I don't mean that the 
> playback skips or stutters, just that things onscreen, in particular 
> background objects, seem to suddenly jitter to the right for a fraction 
> of a second and then go back to their previous position.  The image on 
> my computer monitor doesn't do this at all.  Is this an mplayer thing, 
> or an nvidia tv-out thing, or what?  Anyone else have this issue, and if 
> so, does somebody know how to eliminate or minimise it?

Tearing is annoying but it can be minimised by using XVMC video output. 
  I'm not sure mplayer supports XVMC so you'd be better trying with 
something like xine which has a very high quality of ouytput and it 
supports DVD menus which is a bonus.

Simon

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