[mythtv-users] Video breaking up after installing new video card

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 1 May 2014 23:02, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> My old video card seemed to have some compatability issues with my Onkyo
> receiver, so I upgraded and bought a "Galaxy Nvidia Geforce GT610 2GB DDR3
> PCI Express Graphic Card HDMI DVI VGA".
>
> I've found that this is causing a few problems when watching recordings that
> we never used to have with the older (and therefore I had assumed inferior)
> card.
>
> 1) I'm getting a horizontal line quite a lot of the time across the screen.
> It might be what people refer to as tearing, but it doesn't seem to require
> any horizontal panning to appear.

For this, make sure you are using proprietary nvidia drivers and use
the "VDPAU High Quality" profile

>
> 2) My video goes very blocky and smashes the picture up. When this happens
> the audio also disappears. It happens quite a lot (many times per
> recording).

sounds like a reception issue, check your antenna and cable