> I'm pretty sure I don't have superhuman vision :-P They're there, I can see > them quite clearly. Maybe your monitor is too dark or too low contrast?
On my display I might be able to see the artifacts that you mention, but it is hard to tell since I do not know what the correct image should be. There are 3 very subtle horizontal bands near the bottom of the image that might be part of the background or maybe not... On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/28/2010 01:46 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not exactly sure when the problem first occurred, but it's been quite >>> a >>> while, definitely more than 6 months. Here's a screenshot of the >>> problem: >>> >>> http://i25.tinypic.com/2vkxrh3.png >>> >> >> Are you sure you uploaded the right image? I don't see any bars in that >> image, > > I'm pretty sure I don't have superhuman vision :-P They're there, I can see > them quite clearly. Maybe your monitor is too dark or too low contrast? > > >>> This is with mplayer using Xv, on standard definition video in >>> fullscreen. >>> Note the gree, red and blue color bars at the bottom. They always >>> appear, >>> but naturally, they're most visible in dark scenes. It's not an mplayer >>> bug >>> it seems, since pausing the video and going out of fullscreen and then >>> back >>> makes them go away temporarily. Also, they never appear with AMD's >>> binary >>> fglrx driver or on non-radeon cards. >>> >>> The problem, as I mentioned already, is an old one. Right now, I'm at: >>> >>> Radeon HD4870 >>> kernel 2.6.35_rc6 >>> xf86-video-ati Git master >>> Mesa Git master >>> X server Git master >> >> Does it happen with any other movie players (totem, vlc, etc.)? > > Didn't try totem, but it happens with VLC too. > > >> If it >> is a driver bug, can you bisect xf86-video-ati to see when the problem >> was introduced? > > I don't know which version introduced this; I guess I'll have to start > trying them all. > > One thing I didn't mention is that the problem only appears when the video > is being scaled. Watching in windowed mode (1:1 ratio) never triggers it. > Only when zooming or going full-screen. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
