[mythtv-users] NVidia TV-Out Black and White Only

[Jeff Noxon]

Make sure your video card (nvidia X drivers) are set for COMPOSITE,
not S-Video, output.  It sounds like you are only getting luminence
output.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:01:49PM -0600, mikey wrote:
> I have an nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev 178) video card 
> with a svideo port.  I have used an svideo->rca (please excuse my 
> terminology ignorance here) to connect the nvidia tvout port to the video 
> in port on my television (no svideo port on the tv).
> 
> I have tried everything (nv-tv, no nvidia proprietary drivers, nvidia 
> proprietary drivers, twinview, no twinview, etc..) and can only get the 
> blasted thing to display in black and white!
> 
> Can anyone clue me in on what could be going on here?  I have googled, 
> searched the ivtv archives, etc... and cannot get a clue.  I vaguely 
> remember at some point, in some obscure archive, reading that the tvout on 
> these cards would only display black and white, but cannot for the life of 
> me find that blurb again.
> 
> I am using the latest nvidia proprietary drivers, cvs ivtv, blah blah.  
> Everything works, just black and white.  I got so frustrated I went out and 
> bought an averkey micro converter to just run from the vga port on the card 
> to the tv, but the picture quality is not quite what I want.