[mythtv-users] Video noise or distortion across very top edge of image

Stuart Larson halcyon at obfus.com
Tue Nov 24 13:46:27 UTC 2009


> I did get this upgraded in Vista - no problem.
>
> I was not however able to find the Overscan settings in nvidia-settings.
>
> I am also having trouble getting the HDMI to be working after reboot.
> Each time I enable it and reboot, it is disabled again.
>
> I also have trouble - I set my Cable box to 'my tv only supports 720
> and 1080i - suddenly it recorded Dexter at 1080i and my frontend had
> issues decoding it smoothly. I was using VDPAU High Quality and it
> stuttered pretty bad. I changed to VDPAU normal and it was better but
> on panning I noticed some aliasing.
>
> Does anyone know what the nest settings are for the onboard nVidia using
> VDPAU?
>
> The device shows as follows in lspci:
>
> VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8300] (rev a2)

For my GeForce 8500 GT, Advanced 2x ALMOST works on everything... except
NBC 1080i shows for some reason.  I've had to bump down the main deint to
Temporal 2X, and to me it looks better than Advanced 1x, which I've set
for my backup deint.



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