[mythtv-users] Returning from guide, screen goes black and white with herringbone pattern.

[Mark Kendall]

On 6 July 2011 12:53, Russell Smith <mavlist at mavericktech.com.au> wrote:
> On 6/07/2011 11:14 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Mark Kendall<mark.kendall at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On 6 July 2011 07:35, Ian Evans<dheianevans at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I'm guessing that you're using the Mythbuntu theme. This theme suffers
>>> worse than most from a particular screen painting issue whereby the
>>> background overpaints the chromakey layer used to display VDPAU  -
>>> which results in the strange effect you're seeing.
>> Yes, I am.
>>
>>> It is fixed in master (0.25).
>> Great to hear. Thanks!
> Is there any chance of the fix will be backported to 0.24 fixes ?  I
> also got this regularlyish, ended up putting in a cron job at 4am to
> blitz mythfrontend and gdm.
>
> Ugly but mostly effective.

The master fix was part of a larger series of fixes and refactoring of
painting code which are not trivial to backport (and are not yet
complete). Hence I won't be backporting.

That said, from memory, the issue I was seeing certainly didn't need a
restart of mythfrontend. It should be enough to either exit playback
or force a repaint somehow (e.g. alt-tab away from the frontend and
back again). Anything else sounds like a different issue.

regards

Mark