https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69675
--- Comment #9 from Pierre Ossman pierre-bugzilla@ossman.eu --- (In reply to comment #1)
IIRC it was the XBMC people that wanted the ntsc variants in the first place as their player defaults to sync to video exactly and would need to resample sound at 24Hz because of this (blu-ray are 24/1.001).
Sure? The source material is 24 Hz, and wasn't the whole point of 24p to get away from NTSC conversions? TV shows might be a different matter though...
Assuming you can reproduce the issue just using mplayer playing a CD - then I can't, maybe your receiver is just more fussy than my TV.
Does it claim CEA compliance?
I would assume so. But it's not really something blingy enough to brag about on the box. There are specs here:
http://eu.harmankardon.com/harman-kardon-product-detail-eu/avr_265.html
Of course your GPU is likely different to mine (HD4890) so I can't test like for like properly.
The old mode is the first one listed by xrandr - can't you just avoid the ntsc ones rather than needing them to be removed?
If I can, I don't know how. It is xbmc that's my use case, and it tends to pick that mode. Besides, we shouldn't have modes listed that don't work properly. :)