[mythtv-users] Video problems.

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:54 -0800, Todd A. Anderson wrote:
> I gave up on the 350's video out and will get a better video card
> with TV-out but for the moment I was just trying to get it functional
> on my regular monitor.  When I try to watch live TV, the audio will 
> play for a few moments then quit and then repeat.  The video has
> a bunch of horizontal lines across it and a bunch of little tick-marks
> along the left and right edges.  I've noticed that I get the same
> effect when I try to use mplayer on some other file if I use the
> -vo xv option but the problems go away if I use the -vo x11 option.
> Anyway to setup the corresponding options in mythtv frontend?

Yes, set "NO_XV" in the environment variable. But you don't want to
do this, XVideo is the hardware color conversion and scaling in X11,
if you disable this you are making the CPU do a lot of work it
shouldn't have to be doing. I've seen similar artifacts to the ones
you are describing with an nVidia card when some of the capacitors
melted off in a hot case. nVidia replaced the card when that happened,
whether your card vendor will do that probably depends on how long
you've had the card. But in any case you should replace the video
card, a MythTV capable video card can be had for $35-$50 these days.

-- Daniel