Black And White Picture!! From Ntcs Vhs Tape- In Wintv 2000

[jamieuk]

I have my VCR connected to my PVR-250 using s-video connection..... when i open Wintv 2000 and choose composite 2 + NTSC M, the picture is black and white.

I have spent nearly 6 hours trying to fiddle with diffrent setting and still have had no luck!!..... I have even tried using the s-video cable that came with my PVR-250 + a exspensive 1 that I bought to day and the picture is still BLACK AND WHITE.

I live on the uk so my format is PAL, but I have a multi region VHS player which plays NTCS format, I have pluged the VHS player in to my TV and the tape plays fine - regards to colour....

Any ideas or advice on wot I can do, I am realy realy stuck and fustrated on this 1.

thanks to any 1 who can help me out!!! realy do apreciate it !!!.

cheers jamie

[_N_]

wouldn't you choose PAL instead of NTSC, cause your VCR is outputing PAL?
and another thing, if you choose NTSC while using a PAL VCR, you'll get a black and white picture, I know that from experience. :)

[Arachnotron]

Your VCR is outputting PAL-60. Most NTSC capable PAL players do that. PAL-60 is a hybrid with NTSC timing, but PAL color encoding. Hence the black and white picture when you select NTSC.

Most European TV's do understand PAl-60, so your TV has no problems with it.

Unfortunatly, only a few capture devices understand PAL-60.(to be more exact, the hardware almost always does, but the drivers don't enable it)

For example, a BT878 based Hauppauge card won't with the Hauppauge drivers, but when you replace those with the BTWincap drivers it will.

I do remember reading about a registry hack for the PVR enabling this. I think it was on the Hauppauge forum on the Benelux site.

You could also try here:

http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/htpc.html

You could also try http://wintvcap.sourceforge.net/

[Bogalvator]

Originally posted by jamieuk
I have my VCR connected to my PVR-250 using s-video connection..... when i open Wintv 2000 and choose composite 2 + NTSC M

Could you expand on what you mean here? Most VCR's output composite video and not the 4 pin S-Video style. Usually when you connect your VCR to your S-Video on your card you get at B & W picture, so you have to connect to your composite connection on your capture card.

[Arachnotron]

Oops... missed that one. Bogalvator is perfectly right; if you have a normal VCR, it will not output s-video, even when using a SCART to s-video adapter. Only a true S-VHS VCR will.

(Which does not change the fact that most European VCR's will output PAL60 when playing back NTSC tapes.)