[mythtv-users] VDPAU corruption

[freedenizen]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Ken Bass <kbass at kenbass.com> wrote:
> With VDPAU, about 1/4 of the way down my screen, I get a blocky effect. It
> is hard to describe, but the amount of blockiness is proportional to the
> brightness and amount of movement in the video. The blocky effect appears
> the entire width of the screen. I'm not sure of the height, perhaps 20-40
> pixels.
>
> I have seen it on two different frontends. It is worse on my IONITX. On a
> regular PC frontend, it happens with VDPAU on but is fine without.
>
> I am using Advanded 1X deinterlace on both.
>
> Anyone else seeing this? I wonder if there is some type of software
> corruption going on since it is always in the same portion of the screen.

Could the issue be with the source?  I have noticed that VDPAU is less
tolerant of errors then software decoding.  Shows that would play with
little to no problem with software had issues with VDPAU until I put
an amp in my cable system to get the signal strength up a bit.