On Tue, May 15, 2007 5:49 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Were you watching the game "live" or as a recording?
I was spooling a recording in progress. > > What resolution were you doing the video capture at? > > What resolution were you doing the playback at? The screen is 1024x768. I believe 800x600 is recommended, but this gets me a blank screen on playback and makes menus hard to work with. > >> - taking off interlacing (but where and how?) > > Controlled from the Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback > Should it be off? Is interlacing obsolete? IIRC it was an early TV trick to compensate for slow scans. I don't know if anyone uses it anymore. >> - doing some mojo with the nVidia card (nVidia Corporation NV18 >> [GeForce4 >> MX 4000 AGP 8x] according to hwconf) > > Which video driver are you using? The open source driver is the nv, > while the NVIDIA proprietary driver is nvidia. You need to look in your > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to find out, or look in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log > file to see which one got used. > nvidia > Which playback choice did you make? You should choose the Xv and not > XvMC. The Xv playback works with either driver even though it takes some > more CPU power, but you have plenty to spare. But it also has fewer > artifacts. The proprietary nvidia driver works better than the open > source nv driver, but you might try the nv driver first to make sure > everything works first. > I'll make that change. > Are you positive the problem is with MythTV at all? Could the white > streaking have been caused by the TV station making the broadcast? > > Gus I'm not positive of anything, but that's my best guess. It was also interesting that this only seemed to happen in the live broadcast. Commercials and films with rapid movement didn't have the problem. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
