[mythtv-users] S-Video Problems

[Brian Huffman]

First thing that comes to mind:  Did you bounce mythbackend?  You need to do
that to pick up changes to the capture card input.

Brian

Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> wrote: 
> Hi all.
> 
> I have been mostly successful with my Mandrake 9.2, PAL, MythTV setup. 
> During its creation I was using the composite in on a PVR 250, but as 
> soon as my cables arrived I switched over to S-VIDEO (much better 
> quality BTW). I did notice that the picture came through in Black & 
> White. I find that if I run the ivtv "test_ioctl -p 0" command in the 
> shell, I get my colour back. However if I begin to record it reverts to 
> black & white again. I have checked mythtvsetup and confirmed that its 
> set to PAL and that Svideo0 is the input etc.
> 
> My best guess is that MythTV is attempting some kind of channel change 
> or something. I can' imagine where MYTH is getting its settings from.
> 
> Does anyone know a fix for this ?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Colin
> 
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