Amiga CD32 and S-Video

[spannernick]

The Amiga CD32 has S-Video,I tried it yesterday and it was black and white with no colour,I know my S-Video on my EasyCap is ok cos I use it for my C64 and thats in colour,so why is the Amiga CD32 in black and white..reminds my of the old days..

[spannernick]

About EasyCap DC60..

Key Features

1.Include Professional and easy to learn & used video editor software.

2.Popular USB 2.0 interface and not need other power.

3.Capture Video & Audio though USB 2.0 interface.

4.Support Brightness, Contrast, Hue, and Saturation control.

5.The dimension suitable that is easy to carry.

6.Could capture audio without the sound card.

7.High plug & play.

8. Support For All Formats: record in DVD+/-R/RW, DVD+/-VR, and DVD-Video.

9. Applying to internet conference / net meeting.

Specification

1.Complies With Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev. 2.0.
2.Supports NTSC, PAL, Video format (NOTE! Doesn't support PAL60 or NTSC-433 which You
need with these newest Xbox games - You must buy then either DC60+ v3.1B or EzCap 116 from me).
3.Video input: One RCA composite gold plated, One S-Video.
4.Audio input : Stereo audio (RCA gold plated)mm
5.Dimension (L)88mm x (W)28mm x (H)18mm
6.USB bus power
7.Supports high quality video resolution
8.NTSC: 720 x 480 @ 30fps
9.PAL: 720 x 576 @ 25fps

System Requirements

1.USB: Compliant USB 2.0 free port.
2.OS: Windows XP SP1.
3.CPU: Pentium III 800 above.
4.HD: 600 MB of available hard drive space for program installation File Format Support,4 GB+ hard drive space for video capture and editing.
5.Memory: 256MB of RAM.
6.Display: Windows-compatible display with at least 1024x768.
7.Sound card: compatible Windows-sound card.

[idrougge]

I guess it's because you've set your capture device to capture composite video, in which case it will capture the luminance component of the S-video signal.

[spannernick]

No I would get a picture from composite in colour but you can see its composite not S-Video(I have both cables connected so I can switch if it don't work and it don't),I have to select S-Video,and all I get is a black and white picture..? I am using DScaler 4119 BTW,seams like CD32 don't work with my EasyCap DC60,have to get DC60+,it works ok with composite.Even in B&W you can see how clear the picture is.its a shame.I use a old 4:3 monitor,I like having the picture the way its meant to be,not stretched like on a widescreen monitor.

[AmigaHope]

Other possibilities:

1) Your S-Video cable is broken -- just the chroma line.
2) S-video jack on CD32 broke or came unsoldered on just the chroma line.
3) You're feeding PAL/NTSC/SECAM chroma to a device that is expecting one of the others. Note that the color modulator in your CD32 is *physically* built to output one of those color standards, regardless of the screen mode/frequency you've selected in software.

[Puggsy]

Originally Posted by AmigaHope

3) You're feeding PAL/NTSC/SECAM chroma to a device that is expecting one of the others. Note that the color modulator in your CD32 is *physically* built to output one of those color standards, regardless of the screen mode/frequency you've selected in software.

This is very possible, I came to the thread to say that you might be giving it the wrong color system. Is your CD32 PAL or NTSC?