[mythtv-users] Background video coming through on Live TV Playback

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Kevin,

Thursday, November 3, 2016, 11:54:06 AM, you wrote:

> As the title says, I'm getting background/residual video coming
> through in a pixelated way in my mythfrontend during live tv
> playback. Also, a partially sticky an pixelated background (tv
> channel logo from the pop up when you change to a new channel) comes
> through when looking at the guide to flip through channels en masse.


> I'm on an always up to date version (currently v0.28-76-g7f8f168)
> from the fixes/0.28 branch and all my frontend boxes (4... this gt
> 730 box and then 3 other gt 520m boxes) run on an always up to date
> version of xubuntu 16.04.1 lts.. I always update the backend (separate system) as well.


> I've ruled the video card out as being an issue (originally a GT
> 520 but just upgraded to a GT 730) but thought for sure that was it
> prior as I've have this system for about 5 years now and thought it
> was just maybe wearing out/heat finally got to it.


> The live tv is powered by 2 SiliconDust HD Prime 3x devices. I
> tried doing a full reboot of all myth's and the silcon's as well, but with no change.


> No other external hardware (tv, receiver) has changed for 2+ years
> and no internal has changed ever outside of the video card mentioned
> above, and this was never an issue before.


> Any ideas?


> When I get some time later I'm going to run the hdmi directly to
> the tv as right now, it goes through the receiver then to the tv, to
> rule the receiver out. I also ordered some new hdmi cables as well.
> Also I need to experiment more with recording the live tv where I
> see the issue and see if the issue still persists when watching the
> recorded version. I don't think the issue is anywhere but live tv
> but I haven't been watching much else so it's possible that it could be happening in more places.


> But I think that exhausts all my hardware fixes.


> I was sure this couldn't have been a software issue but now I'm not
> so sure. I haven't seen this on any other frontend I have but this
> is also my main tv so none of my other frontends are watched nearly
> enough as this. But this occurs very frequently enough on this
> specific problem frontend that I would've seen it somewhere else.


> Again, if anyone has any other ideas, specifically to any software
> issues (mythconverg db settings, local frontend settings, etc) that
> might be worth looking into, ideas would be appreciated. 


> If I rule out the receiver and hdmi cables, I'm finally going to
> blow the frontend away and provision it again, but all my frontends
> are running clean builds anyway so there's really nothing else on
> the box besides the xubuntu install and mythtv dependencies.

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