Bei Filmen, insbesondere bei horizontalen Bildschwenks, trat bei mir häufig ein seltsamer Effekt auf. Dabei schien es so, als bräuchte die untere Bildhälfte einen Moment länger als die obere. Diese Verzerrung ließ sich deutlich an Kanten erkennen, die dann nicht sauber durchgängig waren, sondern wie bei einer Treppenstufe versetzt. Im Internet findet man unter den Begriffen “Scanlines” oder “Tearing” einiges zu dem Thema. Durch langes Herumprobieren habe ich eine Lösung gefunden, die diese Effekte minimiert hat:

• Erstmal die wichtigste Einstellung: Unter KDE lassen sich die Arbeitsflächeneffekte wie Transparenz, Schatten oder diese Vista-ähnliche 3D-Fenstergalerie einstellen. Der Weg dorthin ist Systemeinstellungen → Arbeitsfläche → Arbeitsflächen-Effekte. Dort im Reiter Allgemein findet sich ein Button für Erweiterte Einstellungen. Hier habe ich folgende Einstellungen gewählt:

• Wichtig Sind beide Haken bei Direktes Rendern und VSync verwenden.

Wenn das noch nicht geholfen hat, können optional noch folgende Einstellungen die Verzerrungen minimieren:

• Im VLC die Ausgabemethode auf XVideo-Extension-Videoausgabe stellen
• Bei den nvidia-Settings  Haken bei Video Textur Adaptor auf Sync to VBlank setzen, ebenso bei Video Blitter Adaptor Settings

The observant types may have noticed NaBloPoMo on NN coming to an abrupt end, unfortunately on Thursday we had a death in the family… my lovely little Konika Minolta Every picture I take is now covered in scanlines making it completely unusable, as far as I can tell it’s a CCD issue which is going to cost more to repair than it will to buy a new camera. That little compact has been awesome, it was just over four years old and had been used almost every day, so it had a good run, I’m just bummed that now I have to research which camera to get (and I can’t spend a year doing it like I did with my new sewing machine!) and of course save up for one and then learn how to use it how it reacts to certain things.

So, no new pictures of my world and my boys up for a while, boo to that. If you want to help towards the saving up for a new camera, maybe an early Christmas present, then feel free to make the most of the button below, I accept all major credit cards!

E3 Overhaul Confirmed

As I posted yesterday, this year E3 will become bigger and hopefully better. It seems G4 was right and Newsweek was wrong since the show will take place Tuesday June 2 through Thursday June 4 and will not be open to public. However audience invites will be more numerous and hopefully will include us bloggers/journalists
Booth size will also be bigger, doing away with the 20×20 feet space limit.

PSP-3000 Woes

The portable console just came out in Japan and apparently people are already complaining.  The problem apparently is coming from the scanlines which are supposed to improve contrast and rendering.
The screens speak for themselves and apparently since the problem is from the new screen there can be no software update. Which means if you don’t like you can re-buy the old one…or wait for a new version.

Gears of War 2 Banned in Germany and Possibly Japan

This trend is really starting to annoy me (and I’m mincing words). You would think that democracies would be smart but this is no different than Book Burning or the Church censorship of the Middle Ages.
These countries don’t shy away from releasing every other porn movie (especially Japan which borders on the underage sex cult) and violent movie out there so what stops them from putting an ‘Adult’ label on the cover and give it a rest???
I guess Germans will have to buy their games on Amazon.uk……ooooohhh maybe the police is going to knock on their door for contraband importation…..
Whatever.