[mythtv-users] intermittent green video shading

[Michael T. Dean]

Brian Edmonds wrote:

>I've been searching for an answer to this problem off and on ever
>since buying a Mac Mini.  The issue is not mythtv specific, but it
>does occur with mythfrontend, so maybe someone here has some ideas for
>me.  The short description of the problem is that when I'm watching a
>MPEG4 video on my Mac Mini (running Debian Testing), using mythtv
>0.81, the video starts normally, shades to generally green tones over
>the course of a couple seconds, resets to normal colours, shades,
>resets again, and so on.  I have exactly the same problem with
>mplayer.  When watching MPEG2 sources (eg. a DVD) the video colours
>are normal under mplayer.
>
>mythfrontend built on my ThinkPad works just fine.
>  
>
Sounds like MacroVision...

Did you record a commercial VHS video?

Mike