[mythtv-users] Color banding in mythfrontend preview window

Jules Gosnell jules at coredevelopers.net
Wed Mar 29 09:48:21 UTC 2006


This problem is still there in the latest drop from ATRPMs - just 
installed them - however, applied your fix and everything is roses now :-)

Thanks, Christopher,

Jules


Christopher McEwan wrote:

> On 3/9/06, *Jules Gosnell* <jules at coredevelopers.net 
> <mailto:jules at coredevelopers.net>> wrote:
>
>     Stephen Williams wrote:
>
>     >On 3/9/06, Daniel A. Segel <mythtv at archer-segel.com
>     <mailto:mythtv at archer-segel.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >>Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
>     >>
>     >>This has been discussed before, but I don't know if a bug report
>     was
>     >>ever filed. It's not the nVidia drivers - I see the same thing
>     with a
>     >>PVR-350 on my AthlonXP-based box. What processors are you all
>     using? The
>     >>last time I had a problem with the preview window it was because I
>     >>wasn't compiling with mmx support. Maybe I'm not doing it again...
>     >>
>     >>Daniel
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     >I'm also seeing the colour banding on the preview window. Using:
>     >- AthlonXP based box.
>     >- 0.19 fixes branch compiled with processor optimisations.
>     >- Nvidia 6106 drivers for a MX440 (nForce2).
>     >- MythCenter theme (non-widescreen).
>     >
>     >Stephen
>     >
>     >
>     I'm seeing it on two i386 boxes (Via Ezra, Sony Vaio) but not on my
>     x86_64 (Opteron) box with 0.19-124.rhfc4.at <http://0.19-124.rhfc4.at>
>
>     Jules
>
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> Also had the same problem with colour banding, had a bit of spare time 
> to attempt a quick fix, if you go to the directory for the theme you 
> are using, in my case
>
> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Retro
>
> and edit the ui.xml file, now search for
>
> <container name="video">
>
> below that line you should see
>
> <area>620,360,160,120</area>
>
> there are 4 groups of numbers, they are
>
> Distance from left of screen in pixels
> Distance from top of screen in pixels
> Width of container in pixels
> Height of container in pixels
>
> You want to change the 3rd of the numbers from 160 to 164, like so
>
> <area>620,360,164,120</area>
>
>
> If you aready running mythfrontend exit out of the watch videos screen 
> then go back into it, if you werent running it launch the frontend and 
> go to watch recordings.
>
>
> -- 
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>
>
> ~CM
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