[mythtv-users] Blue lines along left and top of screen
Trey Thompson
treythompson at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 23:27:06 UTC 2006
> I had this problem a while back and had the same issues with the
> commands not working. Try to run xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0 from the
> command line and you will probably receive a message stating that xvattr
> does not exist. If memory serves me correctly you will need to install
> the xvattr program and I think I did that with the command "yum install
> xvattr". Hopefully this will tell you that there is one program to
> install and once it is installed try to run the command again from the
> command line. If the program runs now it should then work on reboot and
> your blue line problems should be gone.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Trey Thompson
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 1:04 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Blue lines along left and top of screen
>
> >> For a while I've had an issue where viewing live or recorded TV was
> >> "fuzzy", with blue lines along the top and left of the screen. Video
> >> and live tv looked fine on my XBMCMyth Xbox and on my Windows PC via
> >> SMB, so I know the problem lies with the myth box. I switched the
> >> preferred playback in the front end setup to libmpeg, and that seemed
> >> to fix the fuzziness, but the blue bars remain.
> >>
> >> From reading the archives, I tried putting xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0
> >> in my ~/.kde/Autostart file, but that did nothing - I read that that
> >> may not work with newer NVidia drivers, but it was worth a shot.
I did this, and it "worked". But, upon further examination, all it
did was color the borders black instead of blue. Switching to another
input on my TV shows a significant border on the Myth side. Any other
things to try to get it to fit right?
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