Myth does reset it but there is a race condition in there between it and the X driver. I've had some more thoughts on this so i'll see if i get some time before the end of this week to have a play. I think i might have thought up something that might just work.
I'll try to reply to this thread when i've had a play. John --- Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I just press the FFWD button on my > remote. It usually > > does not affect the position of the video (because > I'm already at the > > end of the buffer), but does make it visible > again. > > > > I'll definitely be glad when someone figures out > the fix for this > > problem, though. It's a WAF thing. > > Put your bullshit protectors on, everything below is > going to come out > of thin air, because I'm not a Myth programmer, > but... > > The reason I think this works is because myth > reset's the overlay > whenever it shows something new on it, and it forces > the repaint of > the area of the screen that is black (which is not > the whole screen as > it might seam. In fact, if you play around with > overscan/underscan in > myth, you'll see the black window, with the tv > showing in the borders. > > Anyway, another way to "fix" it is hit the menu key > and bring up live > tv menu (program guide, enable browse mode, previous > channel, etc). > and then exit it. > > It seems that myth could just reset whatever it does > when it brings up > OSD stuff when exiting the program guide. Then > again, maybe it already > does that. I have no idea. > > I agree this is a most annoying problem though :( On > the two out of > two systems myth systems I've built this week, it > does it every single > time I view the guide and exit without changing > channel. It actually > seems to be worse in 0.17, in 0.16 it was just dim > and not completely > black. On 0.16, you could undim/fix it the same way > I described above. > > -Kenneth > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
