[mythtv-users] Just a two-lines playback...

[Andrew Burgess]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 21:55 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote:

> When I say "two-lines playback" I really mean a video playback made up 
> of just a couple of horizontal lines in the middle of the playback 
> window. They are exactly the two central lines of the actual video (I 
> can still watch it perfectly with MPlayer, ffplay and totem). That 
> happens with any video, DVD, and such.
> 
> There must be something wrong with my Debian Lenny that affects this way 
> not only MythTV, but also ogle and xine: both the latter behave exactly 
> like MythTV (just the two central horizontal lines of the video are shown).
> 
> I've never seen something like that.
> 
> Everything else that deals with graphics and sound works perfectly on my
> PC, so I really can't figure out what this could be!

Maybe try turning on some FE debugging?
"mythfrontend -v help" for the list
"mythfrontend -v playback" sounds promising...