[mythtv-users] ATI and Blue Hue problem

Todd Courtnage todd at courtnage.ca
Thu Apr 24 14:48:32 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 00:21 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Todd Courtnage <todd at courtnage.ca>
> wrote:
>         Hey all.
>         
>         I just upgraded to MythTV 0.21, and upon trying to watch TV,
>         doh!, I got the blue hue problem.  I've had this before, and
>         used the workaround posted numerous times of uncommenting the
>         hack defined in videoout_xv.cpp.
>         
>         However, the hack is no longer there.  I can't find either the
>         USE_ATI_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_XVIDEO_HACK or the
>         USE_HACK_FOR_BROKEN_I420_SUPPORT_IN_DRIVER defines in the
>         videoout_xv.cpp.  Checking the wiki, I see I can insert this
>         into my database now:
>         INSERT INTO settings (value, data, hostname) VALUES
>         ("BrokenI420Hack", 1, "$YOUR_HOSTNAME");
>         
>         I inserted this record, still no go.  Blue faces galore.
>          (Yes, I changed $YOUR_HOSTNAME to my real hostname.)  :-)
>         
>         I did a grep on the MythTV source for "BrokenI420Hack" and
>         nothing came up.
>         
>         What or where is the workaround for this issue in MythTV 0.21?
>         
>         ATI 9550 (RV350), using the latest ATI/AMD fglrx drivers (8.4)
>         and MythTV 0.21.
>  
> I believe this has already been fixed in the -fixes branch and latest
> trunk
>  
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5039

Thanks, I'll get latest -fixes branch and give that a try.
 
> Kevin

Todd



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