Andy, all, thanks very much for the replies. Sorry it's taken me a while to respond.
>> looks bad on S-Video 1: grainy and desaturated color. >> but good on Composite 1. > > The PVR-350 defaults to outputting on both CVBS and S-Video. Could you > test with v4l2-ctl to set the output explciitly to S-Video only? Yes, I did try that, but it didn't help. > Please try and test these things if you can (maybe you already have): > > 1. The PVR-350 S-Video output quality using Windows > 2. A different S-Video receiving device (another TV, VCR, or even a > PVR-150) > 3. A different S-Video cable Ok, I will try those as next steps. > > Most PVR-350's are getting old, so a partial failure of the SAA7129 chip > due to age would not be surprising. > > If you look at page 47 of the SAA7129 datasheet: <snip> > The registers of the SAA7129 are documented on pages 15-35 of the > datasheet. A simple register to play with, to get an obvious effect, is > register 0x3a, where the state of bit 7 controls whether the SAA7129 > displays normal video or a color bar pattern. Good to know, thank you. By the way, you might be surprised to know that when my old PVR-350 burned up about a year ago, Hauppauge sent me a brand new one as a replacement at no cost. Very generous of them. > I'm really busy for the next 2 weeks, so I won't be able to look into > any possible problem myself until then. Even then I'll have to jump > through hoops to get a device that can receive S-Video near my PVR-350. Please don't bother on my account. At this point with Composite out working, I'm not willing to put much time into troubleshooting it myself :) Thanks again, I appreciate your detailed reply. Dirk _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
