[mythtv-users] Tearing problem solved. Film at 11.

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Wed Mar 11 15:31:23 UTC 2009


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 07:33:37 Dan Wilga wrote:
> 
>> So the moral of the story is: don't assume your tearing problems are
>> all on the PC side of things. Check for anything on the TV that might
>> be causing it to process the entire picture: scaling, motion
>> correction, deinterlacing, etc. Sometimes these things are best left
>> to the PC.
> 
> Boy that's the truth, never assume. I was bringing up a new BE/FE combo 
> yesterday, and had no audio either live or on recordings.
> 
> Checked everything, tried alsa:default, /dev/dsp, nothing worked. This should 
> not have been so hard.
> 
> Of course the station I was watching/recording had audio problems and was not 
> sending any audio.
> 
> Check the source before you assume it's your Myth box. I was a victim of very 
> poor timing and not checking more than one source.
> 
Heh. Tried out a new S-Video cable a couple of weeks ago, and couldn't 
understand why the picture was in black and white...

-- 

Mike Perkins



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