[mythtv-users] mythfrontend is shearing video playback

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:52 PM, John and Holly Klug wrote:

> I am using the Nvidia proprietary driver (current AMD64) with Myth.
> Anytime there is some panning, I get a horizontal shearing of the
> video.  I have enabled glx vsync in nvidia-settings.  I have tried  
> NO_XV=1.

Sounds like you are viewing interlaced content on a progressive display.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Interlaced_Output

Try turning on a Deinterlacer.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Deinterlacing
(Note: The above link has no been updated for .021. If you're running  
0.21, poke around the TV Playback options.)