[MPlayer-users] Re: "Black & white" playback through bt878 s-video input

[Joseph N. Hall]

Stefan wrote:
> "Joseph N. Hall" <joseph at 5sigma.com> writes:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Ick. I am seeing the dreaded "black and white" bt878 tv playback.
> > This occurs only, at the moment, in s-video NTSC playback.
> 
> Are you _really_ sure you have a s-video signal? If you apply
> composite to the s-video luma input, you get b&w...
> -- 
>  Stefan Seyfried, seife at gmane0305.slipkontur.deOn Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:16:17 

Funny, I tried it just now with mplayer from CVS and I get color
S-video.  (It seems a little noisy, but that could be the CLV laser
disc.)

Even funnier, I tried it just now with the *same* mplayer as
below, and I *also* get color S-video.

Funnier still, I haven't rebooted since the last time I
tried it (repeatedly) and it was black and white.

I have no freakin' clue.  It is possible that I changed a cable,
which would go a long way toward explaining this otherwise bizarre
behavior.

Thanks very much for your response.

  -joseph

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-0700, Joseph N. Hall <joseph at 5sigma.com> wrote:
> BTW:
> 
> Input 3 is also B/W.
> 
> I'm not sure what I would upgrade to fix this.  I really don't
> want to go down the ALSA, v4l2, etc road, been there done that
> before, life is short, et cetera.  RPMs are good.
> 
> I see the same behavior with xawtv.
> 
> I *think* it works intermittently, although I am not sure.
> I swear I think I saw the composite input work at least once.
> No clue if/when/where/how/why.
> 
>   -joseph
>