[mythtv-users] nVidia driver 304.88: problems

[Paul Gardiner]

On 17/04/2013 09:11, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:10:26 +1000, you wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On 17 April 2013 12:20, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> You're saying that it changes even if say GUI is currently at 50Hz and
>>>> you
>>>> try to play a 50Hz video? and that shouldn't happen?
>>>
>>> Exactly. I and several others see exactly that, and the patch fixes it.
>>>
>>>
>> ok.. that should be simple enough then..
>>
>> But from my recollection, that's not the bug others were reporting. It was
>> that refresh rates weren't being changed *at all* with drivers 3xx ..
>>
>>
>>
>>> But presumably that should happen only if the required mode is not already
>>> in use.
>>>
>>
>> Sure... however I think it's extremely minor. Nothing much happens if you
>> simply try to change the video mode to the same one again..
>>
>> on my projector, I get a slight blank screen for a fraction of a second..
>
> Unfortunately, there are many TVs that do annoying things on a mode
> change.  My Sony Bravia KDL-32V5500 takes rather more than a fraction
> of a second to change modes, and it puts up some overlay information
> that lasts for several seconds after that.  Which can be quite
> annoying.  I have not found any option in the TV to turn off that
> behaviour.

Quite. And at some time in the past, someone made the effort to get this
right. It's a pity to have it broken. Would seem daft not to fix it,
especially as we have a patch that does so (perhaps not an ideal patch,
but something that should at least be a basis for a solution).

P.