> > Im having reoccurence old problems where in grabdisplay mode > > I'm having black vertical "stripes" along the right side > > of the screen. > > > > also if I swtich into the full screen mode (also in grab display) > > it will dispaly only left 66% of the screen, also whith horizontal > > black thin stripes taking around half of the monitor.. > > Can you identify how many pixels width are being captured? I found a > similar problem (which I mentioned on this list some while back). I'm > using a PAL tv signal, and my bttv card doesn't do scaling properly if the > requested width is greater than 768 pixels (which does happen because of > the way the driver I'm using---0.7.64, IIRC---works). > > If you use the XFree v4l module, it restricts the max width to 768 so the > problem goes away. I patched the driver to fix this and it's worked fine > for me ever since. In testing, I identified that the problem only occurs > at certain display heights (e.g. it doesn't occur if you're only showing > one field...@288 pixels) > > Alternatively, it could be that bandwidth thing again :) I think it might be somehow related to the fact that in my XFree86-4 config file I have defined only one mode, that is "1280x1024", and I suspect XVideo extension switches resolution, when running in full-screen overlay mode. Is this case? If so what kind of resolutions I should add there besides my default one? Also where I can find information on differences between grab display and overlay. I have a vague idea how they differ but I would know difference in more details.
