[mythtv-users] Blue line appears on screen

[mark at onnow.net]

Just type this at a shell:

xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0

It is a blue background that you are seeing peeking through.  This changes it to
black.

Mark

Quoting Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com>:

> I am running Myth with a P4 2.8 HT and doing TV-out using svideo on a
> Geforce 5200. Right now the capture card is a WinTV-FM. Setup is on
> FC2 using Jarod's guide.
> 
> A lot of the time I get a thin blue bar on the left of the screen when
> watching a recording. When I watch a widescreen DVD, I also get a thin
> blue bar appear on the top of the show. More precisely, I get a blue
> border on the left and top of the letterbox when viewing a widescreen
> DVD.
> 
> I have a regular TV (not HDTV). The audio from my sound card and the
> svideo output  from my video card goes to another box (can't think of
> what it's called), then a coax cable goes from that box to the coax in
> on my TV. The box is what you use to hook up a DVD player to a TV that
> only has coax inputs.
> 
> Anyway, I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts on how to get rid of the blue
> line.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lane
> 
> -- 
> "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11."
> -- George W. Bush, 17 Sept 2003
> 




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