Help! Smirfs have taken over some of my HD channels.

[AMCooper63]

Without a picture I wouldn't believe myself. But about a week ago Some of my HD channels have been taken over by Smirfs. Irony is that my kids don't know what Smirfs are. I have SageTV V4 with a Fusion HDTV 5 Gold. In Fusion software all channels are fine. No Smirfs. But in SageTV Channels 2 and 7 have been over run by Smirfs. KTVU-DT 56-2-1 480i and 100% signal strength. KGO-DT 24-7-1 480i and 100% signal strength. I have pleanty of other 480i channels that work fine in SageTV.
It's almost a negative effect, but the blacks and whites are still correct.
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Actually it's smurfs not smirfs.

[evilpenguin]

I saw that exact same thing one time when I was switched over to the Sage Mpeg Decoders. My Nvidia decoders were fine though.

[AMCooper63]

Thanks for the help and correction. You are correct that it's the video decoder creating my smUrfs. I tried these; InterVideo NonCSS video decoder, InterVideo video decoder, SageTV MPEG video decoder and I got Smurfs. I try NVIDIA Video decoder and I get good video but it's herky jerky. (BTW, when I use the nVidia audio decoder I don't get any sound) I tried the NVIDIA video PostProcessor decoder and SageTV hangs.

Got any idea how to turn off the Smurf feature in the InterVideo video decoder? I guess I'll look for updates or perhaps reload the decoder. This probably happened after I updated the Fusion HDTV5 Gold drivers.

[AMCooper63]

I thought I'd let you know. I switched from VMR9 to overlay and the colors corrected.