[vlc] Re: no color (colour) - only black and white when watching tv

[Benjamin Pracht]

Le samedi 11 mars 2006 à 00:19 -0800, Ben Smith a écrit :
> This is driving me crazy - I am trying to capture TV from my 'Freebox'
> through a Hauppauge Win TV PVR PCII capture card using VLC Media
> Player. For a week I was unable to get any colour and was only able to
> view/capture footage in black and white. Then, suddenly I got colour.
> Now, about a week later, after having to reboot the machine (and
> re-boot my firewall) the colour is gone! Nothing I can do seems to get
> it back, and I'm not sure what happened the first time to allow me to
> capture in colour. 
>  

This might be related to improper settings of your card. On windows,
have a look at the settings of your card in the device manager. On
linux, the ivtv drivers come with a tool to set up the card options (I
am thinking of the source number for instance).

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BigBen

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