[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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