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Author:  rdbeer [ Tue May 09, 2006 9:57 am ]
Post subject:  Recordings are black and white, but livetv is in color
This problem is baffling me. I am using R5B7 with svideo into a PVR-350. Video out is svideo from a NVidia FX5200.

Is there _any_ difference in the encoding/decoding process between a recording and livetv? I thought that they go through exactly the same process: 1. pvr350 encodes svideo, 2. file is stored to disk, 3. file is decoded for viewing on the FX5200. The only difference I am aware of is the delay in time.

So why do all my recordings show up B&W monochrome, but livetv is in color?

thanks in advance,
Dirk
Author:  nickread [ Tue May 09, 2006 7:10 pm ]
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Curious. What about playback of livetv recordings (ie the recordings that are kept of the live tv you watch)? Is this a new install or an upgrade?
Author:  tjc [ Tue May 09, 2006 7:18 pm ]
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Recording profiles? "Live TV" versus "Default" is one difference...
Author:  mjl [ Tue May 09, 2006 7:36 pm ]
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Hi,
As a suggestion, check your mythtv-setup for the input to be svideo0 instead of composite0. If you still have the adapter svhs <> rca then switch to composite and try that also.

Curious, how do you switch to the external video connector?

Mike
Author:  rdbeer [ Wed May 10, 2006 4:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Recordings are black and white,but livetv is in color SOLVED
Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

Turns out I had two inputs set up in mythtv-setup - one svideo0 and one composite0 (I tried out composite0 a while ago and decided not to use it).

Running mythtv-setup, deleting all inputs, and setting up svideo0 did the
trick.

Apparently composite0 was giving me b&w.

For reasons I don't understand, watching livetv was always color, presumably from svideo0, and scheduled recordings were b&w (from composite0).

Occasionally (usually as I was troubleshooting :? ) recordings would be in color (often somewhat faded). I'm guessing that was due to flaky behavior of composite0 rather than random use of svideo0?

Anyway, thanks again!
Dirk
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