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sa226 · 11-13-2012, 06:17 PM

Bumping this, as I'm looking for a bit of help. Googling hasn't got me anywhere.

My HTPC is all built and running pretty well aside from a few needed tweaks and XBMC's unwillingness to see my TV shows.

One thing that has stumped me is that when viewing some video files and Netflix, I get horizontal lines kind of popping up every 30 ish seconds.I want to say its artifacting, but that would likely imply a hardware issue. It runs the mkv's beautifully, so I don't think its a hardware issue. Like a video processing problem. Kind of hard to describe but my initial thought was that it was having a hard time processing the video.

But the lines only happen with the smaller files. Xvids, AVI's, ISO's as well as Netflix. The large HD mkv files play beautifully.

I thought it may be some sort of transcoding issue, but then whey would the issue pop up on Netflix?

I run XBMC and WMC on a windows 7 machine plugged into a Samsung TV via HDMI out from a HD Radeon 6450.

11-13-2012, 06:17 PM	#18
sa226 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Back in Calgary!! Exp:	Bumping this, as I'm looking for a bit of help. Googling hasn't got me anywhere. My HTPC is all built and running pretty well aside from a few needed tweaks and XBMC's unwillingness to see my TV shows. One thing that has stumped me is that when viewing some video files and Netflix, I get horizontal lines kind of popping up every 30 ish seconds.I want to say its artifacting, but that would likely imply a hardware issue. It runs the mkv's beautifully, so I don't think its a hardware issue. Like a video processing problem. Kind of hard to describe but my initial thought was that it was having a hard time processing the video. But the lines only happen with the smaller files. Xvids, AVI's, ISO's as well as Netflix. The large HD mkv files play beautifully. I thought it may be some sort of transcoding issue, but then whey would the issue pop up on Netflix? I run XBMC and WMC on a windows 7 machine plugged into a Samsung TV via HDMI out from a HD Radeon 6450. Last edited by sa226; 11-13-2012 at 06:34 PM.