As promised this is just a note to say that I posted a fix to the dev list for the issue of the black screen after closing the EPG. If anyone still has problems let me know.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Harvey > Sent: 08 March 2005 10:25 > To: Maverick; Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Understanding PVR 350 output options > > 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
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