[olug] NVidia and video corruption.

[Ben Watson]

I've had these issues as well on my master backend.  Honestly I don't
know why/how it happens in the first place, but I end up messing with
internal player settings until it works.  I think you can also tell it
not to use the internal player and to use something else (e.g. mplayer
or vlc).  A little clunky I know.  I kind of doubt that it is anything
NVIDIA related.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Shannon <ridgid at gmail.com> wrote:
> could it have something to do with
> interlaced video?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video#Problems_caused_by_interlacing
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
>> Ok, my memory was incorrect.
>>
>> I can play videos using VLC just fine (recorded TV and others), but
>> when I use the internal viewer, the video has the lines.
>>
>> Here's a link to the photo in my GooglePlus stream:
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/108237109142616749665/albums/5700983386433147889
>>
>> I tried setting the default viewer to use VLC, but it didn't seem to use
>> it...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 17:44, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>> > My new Mythbuntu combination front/back-end system is working well
>> > except for one problem: when I try to play back videos they are
>> > corrupted on the screen.
>> >
>> > I can copy the files to another Linux system where they look fine.
>> > The menus, desktop, terminals, etc on the front-end system are just
>> > fine, just moving video is corrupted.
>> >
>> > I upgraded from the Ubuntu stock NVidia driver to the latest driver -
>> > 290.10 - for my GeForce 8400 GS card, but no luck.
>> >
>> > The corruption is very regular.  Colors off in vertical stripes about
>> > 10 pixels wide.  I can take a photo and post it somewhere if it helps.
>> >
>> > Anyone have any thoughts?
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
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