[MPlayer-users] S-Video - black and white in linux, colour in Windows

[Michael Brewer]

mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:norm=PAL:input=2:width=640:height=460 -vo xv


On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:15, James Green wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi All,
> 
> Hardware: Playstation 2 with Sony S-Video lead into S-video input on a
> Hauppauge WinTV bt848 card.
> 
> Software: Mplayer 0.90RC1 (also tried xawtv, zapping), kernel:
> Linux cyberstorm 2.4.19 #1 Wed Oct 30 12:41:01 GMT 2002 i686 AMD
> Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> Does not have v4l2 afaik.
> 
> Problem: When I select S-Video input in the software, I see the
> Playstaton2 but in black and white only. I have confirmed that all
> hardware is PAL and the software is set to PAL. I have also tried
> combinarition of NTSC in software.
> 
> Additional Info: Reboot into Win98, use Hauppauge's own TV viewer,
> select S-Video and PAL, and the Playstation 2 shows up in glorious
> colour. Have also confirmed it works perfectly using S-Video on a PAL
> television set.
> 
> Conclusion: something on the linux side of things is not allowing me to
> set the tuner's S-Video input to include colour channels.
> 
> At this point I cannot proceed myself. I tried this for mplayer and got
> the PS2 in b/w only:
> 
> mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:input=2:width=640:height=460 -vo xv
> 
> Help!
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> James Green
> 
> 
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Michael Brewer <michael at wapmx.com>
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