LiteOn LVD-2001 Black and White Only on S-Video

[Brutus1234]

I got my Lite on Wed of this week and hooked it up temporarily using the analog video cable that came with it. Everything worked fine but I never tested the S-Video connection.

Yesterday I updated to firmware version 227 for DivX 3 compatability and I connected the S-Video. I'm only getting Black and White. I've tested the cable and SVCD on my other DVD player and it works fine.

The LVD-2001 has color on the analog line but only B/W on the S-Video.

Is anyone else experiencing this? I try didn't the the S-video straight out of the box so I don't know if it's a firmware issue or if the connection was bad all along. Would appreciate insight before I RMA.

By the way, this thing is great regardless of the S-video problem. Divx 3 is still choppy as hell but v4 and v5 seem flawless. Not sure about Xvid, having mixed results. A 1 disk 700 meg Divx 4 looks great on my 36 inch TV. 2 disk (1400 m/b) with AC3 are flawless. Once the Divx v3 issues are tweaked out, there will be little to complain about. I had a PC setup to do this before. No matter how inconvenient it is to have limited Fast Foward, on the player it beats waiting for a PC to boot up and getting my butt of the couch to move the FF with the mouse.

That's my 2 cents worth.

[yautja666]

Brutus1234,

I think I can help...

I went through the same thing with one of my LVD-2001's (I have several of them actually)...exact same problem: first thing out of the box, all I saw was a black and white image via the S-video hookup. Try this:

Push the silver 'display' button on the remote control in the lower-left corner repeatedly. It'll switch various display modes until you get the correct one.

Hopefully this solves it!

Dave

[wulf109]

Did you look in the menus of the player,there might be an option to select S-video as your output option.

[Brutus1234]

Dave,

I tried what you suggested but it doesn't seem to work. The Display button only works when there's a disk in the player and then it only brings up a information display. There is no option to change anything.

Pressing the Display button with no disk in the unit brings up an icon indicating 'not possible'.

I've double checked all the menu options and manual and there doesn't seem to be any reference to this type of problem.

Could you please double check your unit and see if it does infact toggle thru display modes when you press this button.

Thanks,

[Brutus1234]

Dave,

You were almost right.

The button that switches the display modes is the P-Scan button. It switches NTSC, PAL 760P etc. It works just fine now.

I think tried it before I wrote my last message but while I was reading the manual once again I noted a comment in the manual not to have the Analogue and S-Video connected simultaneously. I went back upstairs and disconnected the analogue, but I still had only black on white on the S-Video. However, once I hit P-Scan, the settings switched and I got color.

Thanks for the tip. I might have not found this without your suggestion.

[yautja666]

Brutus,

Glad you got it fixed!

Somehow I had the black 'n white problem with only an s-video cable hooked up. And also, I think the display modes switched properly if there was no disc in the deck, but I could be wrong.

Sounds like I must've lucked into fixing my version of this problem somehow!

Dave

P.S. Have you tried encoding Mpeg-4 files to play back on your LVD-2001 yet? If so, maybe this should be the start of a new thread, as it's been an imperfect procedure for me so far and I'd be into discussing it.