Still can't get rid of tearing at the top of the screen

[padre]

PVRUser, when you cropped the three lines in SnapStream, did they just crop out of the output on the screen or did they actually get cropped out of the MPEG2 file created?? Just curious if they had a method of setting a crop area for encoding.

For the MPEG2s I've already recorded, I'll just have to use TMPGenc on them to crop the top few lines off. But for TV series and cartoons, it's not that big of a deal.

May just have to buy one of those cheap Dell's to use a processing machine (if I can't get it fixed). Oh well, more machines in the basement!

Happy New Year everyone, and I appreciate all the feedback and suggestions!

Kevin

[PVRUser]

Not sure. I am not using it anymore so I can't say sorry.

[padre]

Update: I swapped DirecTV receiver (took out the Hughes, and put in my RCA from my bedroom). That resolved most of the problem. I don't get the white tears at the top of the screen, but I'm still seeing some garbage (if it were a VHS tape, I'd say it was tracking). It's only the top 2 or 3 lines of the screen. Doesn't show up on the TV, but can see it on the MPEGs. I noticed it on my other PVR, in the basement, but thought it might have just been the setup.

Its not white, looks more like blockiness at the top couple of lines. Weird.

[padre]

I tried to clip a shot and show what I'm talking about. Don't know if it's too visible, but take a look:

http://home.comcast.net/~kpurdy/garbage.jpg

I had a thought (scary, I know!) but could it be Macrovision from the DirecTV receiver? Although I always thought and heard it was only enabled for PPV movies and events, not regular broadcasts.

[padre]

No one knows what this distortion at the top of the screen is? It's not the white dots you'd see if it were closed captions.

Ideas??