[mythtv-users] what is this video artifact?

[James Miller]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Jim Stichnoth wrote:

>> This sounds like it might be tearing.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing (though their example looks
> much cleaner than the tearing I've seen)
>
> Depending on your setup, there are a number of things you might do to fix
> it.

Thanks for the responses so far on this topic. It's now dawning on me that 
my presumption that, since I've been posting so frequently to this list 
over the last couple of months with my system's problems that everyone 
knows the details of my system, is a mistaken one :).

So this is a Liva X combination FE/BE. Definitely a bit underpowered. It 
has VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView Gen7 (rev 0e) 
for video hardware. It has hooked to it what is essentially a big LCD 
monitor--Aquos LC-37H4VU (once paired with a separate tuner box that's 
often referred to by some acronym but the tuner box no longer exists). The 
monitor hooks to the Liva via the latter's HDMI port, which I've adapted 
to the monitor's input with an HDMI-to-DVI adapter. So I think the 
monitor/screen has little in the way of its own "brains."