[From nobody Tue Feb  3 21:47:31 2004
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:01:16 -0700
From: brent <brentfisher@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Vertical letter boxes on playback (Epia M10000)
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Hi again,

I have done some more testing and have determined that it is actually 
MythTV that is not working correctly.  After trying everything with no 
luck (including reverting X to v4.3.0 w/ the binary via drivers) I 
downgraded to v0.13 of MythTV and "viola" - the TV-out is full screen again.

I should mention that it only seems to work properly w/ v0.13 compiled 
with the HW decoding support built in.  Without it the distortion is 
still present - but hey, I want to use the HW decoding so I'm not too 
concerned with that. 

In v0.14, the TV-out has black bars on the sides regardless of whether 
I'm using the HW MPEG or not.

I have two front-ends (the Epia and my desktop PC) and a back-end which 
also runs the front-end connected to a TV (GeForce MX440 TV-out).  Only 
the Epia has a problem.

Is anyone running v0.14 on an Epia M10000 (Nehemiah) connected to a TV?  
Any idea's what I've got wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Brent

brent wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem since upgrading to v0.14 with my video playback 
> and was wondering if anyone has seen this before or might have an idea 
> what the problem is.
>
> There are vertical letter boxes (or just black bars) on the sides of 
> the playback and I cannot get rid of them.  The GUI is fine, and xine 
> -V xv is fine (I haven't been able to get the cle266 xine plugin to 
> work) but TV / recording playback is compressed from the sides (not 
> truncated) so I suspect that it has something to do the hardware 
> decoding.
>
> This may not be (probably isn't) the fault of MythTV as I also update 
> my xfree installation to xfree-epia-4.3.99.902-r5 yesterday.
>
> I'm using the open source hardware decoding library (libddmpeg) 
> version 1.5.
>
> The playback was working previous to updating XFree and MythTV.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brent
>
>


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