[mythtv-users] corrupt picture after upgrading to latest 0.21-fixes

[Niall Ryan]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Niall Ryan <niallsspamcollector at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:05 AM, greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Niall Ryan wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded my MythTV installation from the version of 0.21-fixes
>>> which comes with Ubuntu, to the latest and greatest weekly build of
>>> 0.21-fixes from http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds
>>> But now I sometimes have a corrupt picture, it looks like some interlaced
>>> ghosting at half a frame offset, see the screen capture here:
>>> http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9598/mythtvbadpictureeo1.jpg
>>>
>>> It comes and goes, and seems to depend on what is being displayed at the
>>> time. Text or solid color areas seem to make it worse, other times it will
>>> be fine. I've tried changing the deinterlacing options with no success. Does
>>> anyone recognize the problem and have a solution?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Niall.
>>>
>>>
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>> Sounds like a video driver problem to me...Try removing and reinstalling
>> the driver.. If that don't work try a different driver....
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>
> I don't think it's the video driver, as recorded programs from before the
> upgrade still play fine. It's only new recordings which are showing the
> problem. I've tried playing them from a different frontend machine too, and
> they still show the same corrupt picture.
>
>
This is now resolved: the resolution in the recording profile needed to be
changed to 768x576 since I have a PVR-150 capture card. After the upgrade it
had been reset to 480x576 for some reason.

Thanks,
Niall.
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