[mythtv-users] 'Vertical bands' with NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440

[Chris Rouch]

On 6/3/05, Ramzy Darwish <ramzy.darwish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have kind of a minor annoyance that I can't seem to figure out. I
> believe it is a problem with the NVidia drivers, but I am not sure.
> 
> I am using S-Video out from an NVidia GeForce 4 MX 440. It works
> alright, but I can't get the picture quality to be as good as the
> regular TV (a Sony Wega Trinitron). But the real problem is that there
> are these vertical bands across the image.
> 
> It's not so bad it REALLY interferes with using the thing, but it is
> annoying. The bands are there outside of myth as well.
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to describe them, so bear with me.
> 
> Across the screen at seemingly random places there are about 4-6 ~3/4in
> bands going from top to bottom. They are not really white, but they are
> much lighter than the picture below them. There is one right in the
> middle of the screen.
> 
> I have used nvidia-settings to try to get rid of them, but nothing seems
> to affect them.
> 
> Does anybody else have this problem?
> Any ideas?


I have one of these cards and use the composite output. The picture
quality is as good as I get from my analog cable. You could try this
and see if you get the same result. Also there's a new nvidia driver
now available (7664), so you could try upgrading to that.

Chris