S-video no color

[SajBot]

I was just going to ask...

I am going to make a capture in WinTV2000 and when
I select S-video I get no color, but I have connected
the tv-card with my vcr with a S-video cable.

So I connected a composite cable instead and selected
composite as the source, then I got color...

Anyone know the problem?
And S-video is better I've
heard, so I want to use that.

[guns1inger]

Most video cards come with a cable that has a standard s-video din plug at one end, and an RCA plug at the other. If you plug this into a standard video socket on a TV or VCR, you only get the luma part of the signal, not the colour. Hence, you get a nice, crisp, black and white image.

I suspect that your video does not have s-video out, so you won't be able to connect your card this way. If it does have a standard s-video out socket, use a standard s-video din to s-video din to connect the two. Otherwise you are stuck with the composite connection only.