[mythtv-users] overscan and video deletion issues

William Otten williammotten at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 01:52:50 UTC 2012


On 2/7/2012 7:29 PM, William Otten wrote:
> On 2/7/2012 7:05 AM, William Otten wrote:
>> I have noticed a couple of issues while looking into the vaapi use on 
>> sandy bridge using the latest master.
>> 1. Overscan - I think this is overscan so someone can correct me. 
>> There looks to be a small area at the top of the screen that looks 
>> like it is rolled over. I found that I can correct it manually by 
>> selecting M>video>Advanced>Video Scan>Progessive, Detect shows I 
>> before the change. This only happens for the 1080 channels and sandy 
>> bridge. The other nvidia setups are not effected.
>> 2. When deleting a video, by selecting "D" in the browse videos, all 
>> the artworks disappears for a few seconds, the text stays displayed 
>> then the artwork resumes and things seem normal. Also during this 
>> time if I escape out, there is a transparent view of the browse 
>> videos on the other screens until it is finished then the other 
>> screens look normal. This happens on both sandy bridge and nvidia 
>> setups.
>>
>> I'm not sure what info I should supply to help determine the cause.
> Sorry forgot to put other info:
> Using ubuntu 11.10 and 12.4 64 bit with sandy bridge setup
> Using ubuntu 11.10 64 & 32 bit with nvidia setups
Also using ffmpeg & opengl on the sandy bridge and various vdpau with 
the nvidia setups for playback profiles.


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