[mythtv-users] Colors inverted
Michael Kurtz
myth at friendz.de
Sun Oct 14 20:35:00 UTC 2007
* On Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 09:29:12AM +0200, Michael Kurtz wrote:
> My problem is that Live TV or recordings played with MythTV have colours
mixed
> up. People have blue skin and things that should be blue are displayed red
> or brown. Everything else is displayed as expected. Thumbnail previews are
> unaffected and play with correct colour response. That's why I think the
> problem is related with xv. If I disable xv in my xorg.conf I don't get any
> videos playing.
> Distribution Slackware 10.2 ( zenslack)
> Hardware S100 with Intel 830M ( zenega)
>Sounds like you might need the "broken i420" hack. You can try the following
>to check and see:
>
>If you're using SVN trunk, insert a row into your settings table like this:
>
>insert settings values ( 'BrokenI420Hack', '1', 'YOURFRONTENDHOSTNAME');
>
>restart the frontend and test.
>If you're using 0.20.x, then you'll need to edit
>libs/libmythtv/videoout_xv.cpp
>and uncomment the line at the top that looks like this:
>
>#define USE_ATI_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_XVIDEO_HACK
>
>recompile, reinstall, etc. and test.
>
>--
>Chris
THANKS!!!! "#define USE_ATI_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_XVIDEO_HACK" did the trick :-)
Michael
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