[mythtv-users] corrupt picture after upgrading to latest 0.21-fixes

Niall Ryan niallsspamcollector at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 00:16:37 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:05 AM, greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Niall Ryan wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently upgraded my MythTV installation from the version of 0.21-fixes
>> which comes with Ubuntu, to the latest and greatest weekly build of
>> 0.21-fixes from http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds
>> But now I sometimes have a corrupt picture, it looks like some interlaced
>> ghosting at half a frame offset, see the screen capture here:
>> http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9598/mythtvbadpictureeo1.jpg
>>
>> It comes and goes, and seems to depend on what is being displayed at the
>> time. Text or solid color areas seem to make it worse, other times it will
>> be fine. I've tried changing the deinterlacing options with no success. Does
>> anyone recognize the problem and have a solution?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Niall.
>>
>>
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> Sounds like a video driver problem to me...Try removing and reinstalling
> the driver.. If that don't work try a different driver....
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I don't think it's the video driver, as recorded programs from before the
upgrade still play fine. It's only new recordings which are showing the
problem. I've tried playing them from a different frontend machine too, and
they still show the same corrupt picture.
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