[mythtv-users] Color banding in mythfrontend preview window

[Christopher McEwan]

On 3/9/06, Jules Gosnell <jules at coredevelopers.net> wrote:
>
> Stephen Williams wrote:
>
> >On 3/9/06, Daniel A. Segel <mythtv at archer-segel.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> >>
> >>This has been discussed before, but I don't know if a bug report was
> >>ever filed. It's not the nVidia drivers - I see the same thing with a
> >>PVR-350 on my AthlonXP-based box. What processors are you all using? The
> >>last time I had a problem with the preview window it was because I
> >>wasn't compiling with mmx support. Maybe I'm not doing it again...
> >>
> >>Daniel
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm also seeing the colour banding on the preview window. Using:
> >- AthlonXP based box.
> >- 0.19 fixes branch compiled with processor optimisations.
> >- Nvidia 6106 drivers for a MX440 (nForce2).
> >- MythCenter theme (non-widescreen).
> >
> >Stephen
> >
> >
> I'm seeing it on two i386 boxes (Via Ezra, Sony Vaio) but not on my
> x86_64 (Opteron) box with 0.19-124.rhfc4.at
>
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Also had the same problem with colour banding, had a bit of spare time to
attempt a quick fix, if you go to the directory for the theme you are using,
in my case

/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Retro

and edit the ui.xml file, now search for

<container name="video">

below that line you should see

<area>620,360,160,120</area>

there are 4 groups of numbers, they are

Distance from left of screen in pixels
Distance from top of screen in pixels
Width of container in pixels
Height of container in pixels

You want to change the 3rd of the numbers from 160 to 164, like so

<area>620,360,164,120</area>


If you aready running mythfrontend exit out of the watch videos screen then
go back into it, if you werent running it launch the frontend and go to
watch recordings.


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Regards,


~CM
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