On 13/03/2005, at 6:20 PM, Nico Sabbi wrote: > Matthew Phillips wrote: > >> On 12/03/2005, at 7:47 PM, Nico Sabbi wrote: >> >>> even better: upload the sample to >>> ftp://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming and post the filename, >>> please >> >> It's now at ftp://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/dvb_artifact.jpg. > ah, those lines! > Yesterday Robert explained that hey are really encoded in the video > stream, I see them too occasionally. > As usual providers transmit a digitized crap Yes, it's very irritating that they feel they need to broadcast their bookkeeping information and partially ruin the quality advantage of DTV :/ Further observation indicates that the blank line is always there, the white dashes seem to turn up on old (analog) content. I've posted a query to the mythtv list to see if anyone there knows how to crop the noise out. Matthew.
