[mythtv-users] tv-out black and white only

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

hi

On 23 May 2011 23:56, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> A bit confused now.  Do you mean a yellow composite RCA output, or
> some octopus like adapter from some DIN socket?

>From what he describes ; he's using plain composite ; yellow is the video cable

He doesn't use S-Video

> When your graphics card outputs an S-Video signal it removes the
> colour information from the composite video line and sends them down
> additional wires which, as I understand it, you're not feeding into
> your TV.

He's set up X to output composite; not Svideo

> Are you sure the TV accepts S-Video signals?  If so you could try
> using an S-Vdeo to SCART lead, otherwise I'd investigate your xorg
> configuration.

He's using a composite+audio SCART adapter.