[mythtv-users] pink bar with air2pc and 1080i

Xiaotian Sun sun.xiaotian at gmail.com
Sat May 14 03:29:00 UTC 2005


On 5/13/05, Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:38:53PM -0700, Xiaotian Sun wrote:
>  
> The driver lies.  It's not the only one, I found the IEG chips
> claimed a larger window too but could not draw more than 1280 wide
> as I recall.
> 
> Until HDTV came along, nobody really tested xvideo scaling circuits
> with wider than 1600 I suspect, so it's harder to get than one would
> think.
> 
> I don't know if ati's proprietary linux drivers help in this area.

No, it doesn't.  I also installed the ati driver.  At first, it had
some permission error, which I don't remember exactly.  I managed to
get rid of that error using some suggestions I found online, then I
found the same pink bar for 1080i video.

> We do need lists of "what doesn't work" to add to the lists of what
> does work.
> 

Xiaotian


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