[vdr] Re: Bad Overlay (green DIAGONAL lines in light Picture parts) (KVDR, xawtv..)

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

On Monday, 22. April 2002 11:25, you wrote:
> Hi, i installed KVDR 051 ; so far so good.
> But my picture qualety is very bad becaus i get in xv  overlay mode
> green diagonal (only in light or white picture parts) lines; these lines
> have exact the same space inbetween and see to have a "blocky"
> behaviour. (think i have seen this in my win 98 /XP system in overlay
> too); I am using a hauppauge DVB-s 1.3 so maybe i net a DVB-Bios update
> ? or is it just a config problem of the overlay mode (xawtv shows the
> same prob)

Probably the color-depth is not detected correctly, therefore the 
bytes-per-line count is wrong and anything is a big mess ;-)

you can try the "-b" option of v4l-conf, xawtv and kvdr.
What card do you have? Maybe some incompatibility is known...