DVD Maker capturing only monochrome video

[adj]

Hi,
I just bought a DVD Maker with Power Director software (code KW-VSUSB).

Install went well, and I have the VHS player hooked up using S-Video and Audio.

Capturing seems to go well, but when I play the results they are in monochrome with sound, not the colour I would have expected.

Any suggestions on what I'm missing?

Thanks, Alan

[TheMadDutchDude]

Strange, do you have another computer which you can try this peice of kit out on?

[system7]

When I plug my NTL/Virgin cable TV to my TV Tuner card using SCART to S-Video, it comes out in black and white. So I use the RF feed instead. Weird, huh. :?

[Jonny2Bad]

svideo also needs the yellow video cable to work properly ive found.

[system7]

I thought the yellow 4 pin was the S-Video... :?

Found this:

S-Video signals are generally connected using 4-pin mini-DIN connectors using a 75 ohm termination impedance. Today, S-Video can be transferred through SCART connections as well. S-Video and RGB are mutually exclusive through SCART, due to the S-Video implementation using the pins allocated for RGB. Most SCART-equipped televisions or VCRs (and almost all of the older ones) do not actually support S-Video, resulting in a black-and-white picture if attempted to use, as only the luminance signal portion is used. Black-and-white picture in itself can also be a sign of incompatible colour encoding, for example NTSC material viewed through a PAL-only device.

Careful, the reference is one of those russian sites... :shock: , seems OK though:
http://pinouts.ru/Video/SVideo_pinout.shtml

[adj]

My thanks to the people that offered such invaluable advice to solve this problem.

To get to the solution I used two systems; a Novatech diy desktop system and a Novatech laptop; and two video sources; an antediluvian VHS player and an analogue camcorder.

Keys to success were:

- using the composite video input (yellow lead) - my VHS recorder is obviously one that does not implement S-Video correctly

- making sure that the latest DirectX SDK is installed before installing the CyberLink software packages

- making sure that the audio input is properly configured - it was fun when I got full colour video and no sound!!!

On to the next challenge............

[TheMadDutchDude]

Yeah.. thanks for the SPAM. Get off our forums :evil: :lol:

[matz]

Yeah.. thanks for the SPAM. Get off our forums :evil: :lol:
novatech forums.. :) P.S it does help ;)