[mythtv-users] Latest SVN gives blue faces in transcoded recordings

[Chris Gentle]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:08:36AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >Anyway, one thing I don't understand is why this only occurs in
> >playback of transcoded recordings.
> >
> Software decoder using Xv.
> 
> >  If I play back recordings that
> >were captured by my PVR-350 card
> >
> Hardware decoder (handled by the PVR-350 without using Xv).
> 
> > or even videos that I have in
> >MythVideo everything looks fine.
> >  
> >
> Different media player (xine or MPlayer)?

That makes sense now.  Thanks for clearing that up.

> Still the same idea.  It's the hue.  You can either a) get logs/debug as 
> Daniel has asked others to do for their cards (and help everyone else 
> using a PVR-350) or b) disable Xv picture controls (make sure you're 
> using a /very/ recent SVN version for this--i.e. recompile with SVN 
> head--as Isaac just checked in a fix 21 hours ago that prevents Myth 
> from setting values at initialization if Xv picture controls is disabled).

I saw that fix last night and gave it a try.  The frontend that I
tried it on had Xv picture controls disabled but the fix didn't seem
to make any difference.  I'll look into getting the log/debug
information.

Thanks for the help!

-- 
Chris