[mythtv-users] 0.19, VIA, XvMC, Ezra/i586 - video corrupted - image enclosed

[Jules Gosnell]

Thanks for the heads up on this Greg. Perhaps Ivor can shed some more 
light...

There is a related thread on 'banding' that I have posted on - the two 
issues seem to go hand in hand.

Jules


Greg Farrell wrote:

>Hi Jules,
>
>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:36 +0000, Jules Gosnell wrote:
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>>http://www.gosnell.org.uk/tmp/00032.jpg
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>I've not seen this with MythTV itself, but I work with embedded
>via/cle266 units using the Openchrome and Unichrome drivers. I've seen
>similar results as you describe with washed out pictures and bands of
>colour across the images with VLC and the Openchrome driver.
>
>The problem turned out to be VLC's handling of internal XvMC surfaces
>(in it's interlace and libmpeg2 wrapper) was not respecting driver
>pitch, and assuming the xvmc surface was the size it requested. Perhaps
>MythTV's code has a similar problem?
>
>I think one of the main Unichrome guys, Ivor Hewitt, is on the list,
>he's on irc anyway. Maybe he'd have more of an insight.
>
>    Greg
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