[mythtv-users] Blue lines along left and top of screen

Trey Thompson treythompson at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 18:04:26 UTC 2006


>> For a while I've had an issue where  viewing live or recorded TV was
>> "fuzzy", with blue lines along  the top and left of the screen. Video
>> and live tv looked fine on my XBMCMyth Xbox and on my Windows PC via
>> SMB, so I know the problem lies with the myth box. I switched the
>> preferred playback in the front end setup to libmpeg, and that seemed
>> to fix the fuzziness, but the blue bars remain.
>>
>> From reading the archives, I tried putting xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0
>> in my ~/.kde/Autostart file, but that did nothing - I read that that
>> may not work with newer NVidia drivers, but it was worth a shot.
>>
>Move or use overscan to "zoom" as a traditional TV would.
>
>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Overscan

I have the same problem with the same FX5200.
I tried using the over/under scan, and that just makes the screen 
bigger/smaller, but the blue bars are still there. 



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