[mythtv-users] Theme backgrounds (sorta) remains visible during playback

[Brent Meyer]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 06/27/2010 02:38 PM, Jan Johansson wrote:
>>
>> (Running 25177)
>> This revision fixed pretty much all the nuisances I've seen lately, and
>> for that I tip my hat.
>> But there is one thing:
>> When starting playback of a 4:3 recordning the theme background (I'm
>> running Arclight Wide) remains visible on the "side borders" of the
>> recordning.
>> If I pause/unpause it goes away, and the borders are once again black.
>> It also goes away by it self when I pass a commercial episode, or any 16:9
>> content in the recording.
>> I looked through the archives, but could not find any mention of this
>> behaviour.
>>
>
> TTBOMK, it's a race condition between the code that paints the theme/please
> wait popup and the code that paints the video window.  This should not
> happen in trunk due to completely rewritten code.
>
> Mike
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I installed trunk last night and encountered a similar problem. In my
case, when I would start a recording, the background image would
completely cover the screen, but I could see bits of the video playing
back underneath it. Pressing pause twice fixed it immediately.

I'm not sure why, but the issue went away completely when I switched
the paint engine from OpenGL to Qt in the Appearance setup page.