[olug] NVidia and video corruption.

Dan Linder dan at linder.org
Tue Jan 24 22:45:12 UTC 2012


Good catch.  I'm tempted to think it may be the internal player since
VLC works just fine.

I've been trying to use VLC instead of "Internal" (using "vlc
file://%s vlc:quit") but it doesn't even bring up VLC.  Am I missing
something?

DanL

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:44,  <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it would be horizontal lines if it were an interlace issue?
>
>> 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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