Video Playback Split into Quarters

[jtomelevage]

When playing back video files it seems that my screen is divided into four quadrants.

In the top left quadrant the video appears to be playing normally.
In the top right quadrant the video seems to be a horizontal smear of the video.
In the lower left and right quadrants the video seems to be a vertical smear of the full screen video.

I am running the video card (ATI (Dell) X300, 128 MB) at 1920 x 1200 resolution.

I have tried to step the video resolution down to 1024 x 768 in both Ubuntu (8.04) and also in Boxee, which seems to follow the Ubuntu screen resolution settings.

Any suggestions?

[Brian]

I'm having the same issue,

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with restricted drivers.

[Brian]

I read another post about installing the latest drivers. I removed the ubuntu provided restricted drivers and installed the binary blob from AMD/ATI.

The menus look great and navigate well. Here are my specs:

Chipset: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)
Video: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
Audio: (For now): Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
RAM: 2GB
CPU: 3.40GHz
HDD: 8GB USB Flash
SnapStream Firefly RF remote using lirc
OS: was Fedora 9 and now Ubuntu 8.04.1 patched as of 20 minutes ago

Currently connected to an LCD panel at 1280x1024, am hoping I can use the DVI-to-component adapter.


I'm still having the same video playback issues. This exact version of boxee ran perfect on the same os but with an Intel 945 integrated video chipset.

[jtomelevage]

@Brian

You are indeed having the same issue with the video as I am. I think I am using the proprietary drivers because I had Compiz installed, or was at least using "Visual Effects" "Extra". In the mean time I have turned them off or "None", but it had no affect on the video playback.

[Brian]

I turned compiz off the first time I logged into the system .

[Brian]

I just tried the open-source "radeon" driver. Video playback looks correct except everything is green.

Sounds like:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php...ighlight=green

I'm running the latest .deb from the boxee apt repo. 2927 I think. I noticed the source tar ball is 2928. I'd rather not compile from source. I already did that with Fedora 9. It took too many hacks and would never upgrade smoothly. For Alpha testing, we should stick with the pre-built binary packages.

[vulkan]

please try this:
create the following file:
~/.boxee/UserData/advancedsettings.xml

and paste this in it:

<advancedsettings>
<glrectanglehack>yes</glrectanglehack>
</advancedsettings>

it should take care of the "green stuff"

let me know if it helps.

thanks
-vulkan.

[jtomelevage]

Do I need to try this also for my "quadrant" issues? How do I change my video driver? Disable the "Restricted" driver?

[vulkan]

this change should be valid for most ATI cards.
you can always remove the file if it doesnt work. worths the test... let me know.

[jtomelevage]

It seems I already have a advancedsettings.xml :

<advancedsettings>
<thumbsize>256</thumbsize>
<loglevel>3</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>

Am I in the wrong directory?