[mythtv-users] Understanding PVR 350 output options - Black Screen after closing EPG fix

[John Harvey]

As promised this is just a note to say that I posted a fix to the dev list
for the issue of the black screen after closing the EPG.
If anyone still has problems let me know.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of John Harvey
> Sent: 08 March 2005 10:25
> To: Maverick; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Understanding PVR 350 output options
> 
> Myth does reset it but there is a race condition in
> there between it and the X driver. I've had some more
> thoughts on this so i'll see if i get some time before
> the end of this week to have a play. I think i might
> have thought up something that might just work.
> 
> I'll try to reply to this thread when i've had a play.
> 
> John
>  --- Maverick <mavantix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Personally, I just press the FFWD button on my
> > remote. It usually
> > > does not affect the position of the video (because
> > I'm already at the
> > > end of the buffer), but does make it visible
> > again.
> > >
> > > I'll definitely be glad when someone figures out
> > the fix for this
> > > problem, though. It's a WAF thing.
> >
> > Put your bullshit protectors on, everything below is
> > going to come out
> > of thin air, because I'm not a Myth programmer,
> > but...
> >
> > The reason I think this works is because myth
> > reset's the overlay
> > whenever it shows something new on it, and it forces
> > the repaint of
> > the area of the screen that is black (which is not
> > the whole screen as
> > it might seam. In fact, if you play around with
> > overscan/underscan in
> > myth, you'll see the black window, with the tv
> > showing in the borders.
> >
> > Anyway, another way to "fix" it is hit the menu key
> > and bring up live
> > tv menu (program guide, enable browse mode, previous
> > channel, etc).
> > and then exit it.
> >
> > It seems that myth could just reset whatever it does
> > when it brings up
> > OSD stuff when exiting the program guide. Then
> > again, maybe it already
> > does that. I have no idea.
> >
> > I agree this is a most annoying problem though :( On
> > the two out of
> > two systems myth systems I've built this week, it
> > does it every single
> > time I view the guide and exit without changing
> > channel. It actually
> > seems to be worse in 0.17, in 0.16 it was just dim
> > and not completely
> > black. On 0.16, you could undim/fix it the same way
> > I described above.
> >
> > -Kenneth
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