[mythtvnz] Green screen .. help please

[Simon Cantem]

Hi,

It sounds like maybe your video driver got updated and it doesn't like it
anymore. What happens if you playback a DVD or an AVI file through something
like Xine or mplayer, do you still get the green screen?

Simon


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been running Mythbuntu quite successfully for some time, however the
> last time I re-booted the machine, I have found that whenever I play a
> recording or watch LiveTV all I get is a green screen, I can see the program
> content ... it just all green.
>
> (There may have been some recent updates ... and this is the 1st time I
> have re-booted since ..)
>
> It doesn't seem to be Xorg, the Plasma, or the nVidia driver as I can use
> it fine as a normal computer in full color, it is only when I am using
> Mythtv for recordings (that previously were fine in full color) or LiveTV
> that I get the issue.
>
> It seems the video decoding is broken for some reason.
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do to resolve this? This is urgent for me, as
> the family rely on this system now  (read ... I am dead meat ..)
>
> Cheers,
> Bernie
>
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