My VCDs play fine on my DVD-rom but when i output the video

[wyteone]

what gives? its all good on the monitor, plays back color just fine. all my DVDs play color fine thru the tv-out but the vcds show only B&W.
oh the dvd-rom is a hitachi GD-5000.

[McCrash]

And where does your tv-out come from ?
Sounds like your are watching some NTSC source on a PAL tv.

cya

[statuspending]

doesn't sound like an ntsc/pal problem to me. sounds like some sort of svideo problem.

but i don't know of a solution. i do believe that your svideo isn't being output correctly, or perhaps not received and interpreted correctly

[wyteone]

the output is coming straight out of my DVD-Rom, ive tried both the SVideo and RCA video outs...same with both, black and white yet on my monitor its fine. but for some reason my actual dvds play just fine from either output.

[richy]

Sounds like a PAL/NTSC problem to me too.

I don't know where you are geographically but the important thing is to check that your VCDs are the same format as your DVDs, ie. PAL if you're in a PAL TV region or NTSC if you're in an NTSC TV region.

I can't see any reason why your VCDs would come out black & white on the TV other than that they are using a different format from your TV set (and your DVDs). My NTSC DVDs (and VCDs) come out black & white on my old TV set but I can force the PC to output them as PAL which fixes the problem. Newer TV sets can generally handle both PAL and NTSC (well, they do in the UK at any rate!) so try using a different TV set and see if this solves the problem.

As for the S-video cable being at fault, I don't think so. Why would it choose to output DVDs in colour and VCDs in black & white? It's not psychic or anything! It is just taking video signals from the PC to the TV after all.

[wyteone]

hmmm. never thought of that before.
incidently i live in Hawaii and its NTSC(never the same color! as we in the tv biz like to joke wit).
so you're saying i should try to change the output to PAL and it might work? weird, well i'll go thru all the different systems then... ntsc, pal, and secam.
well my dvd-rom does output color bars when theres no disc in the unit and thats always right...anyone think my DVD-rom is going bad? cuz i even got the problem where some VCDs read is 2music files(44bytes large to be exact) and the thing wont even reconize the folders.
thanks ppl.
alohaz!

[richy]

I probably should have explained that the reason why I had to force the NTSC output to PAL on my TV was because it was a PAL-only TV set. Just so as there's no confusion here

I am in the UK but Hawaii would be preferable!

[jjstarbot]

This just happened to me also. I had a PAL VCD and was playing it with a Cinemaster 3.0 card out to a TV. The TV was NTSC only. I had it outputing PAL to the TV. The video was black and white with out of sync sound. I re-encoded the movie with TMPe with the NTSC template (not film) and then burned a VCD. It works fine now.

Oh yeah and setting the TV output to NTSC in the Cinemaster would make the video in color but it looked somewhat strange like much poorer quality and the audio was still out of sync. When I re-encoded the CD and reburned it all problems were solved. Better quality and it played fine. By the way my TV is very old.

Hopefully some of my ramblings helped

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