S-video Lead!!

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jetster

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Anyone knows much about s-video cable ???

I've connected an s-video lead directly from to the tv to watch a movie from pc and picture was perfect with colour and good resolution.

When i tried to connect an s-video to scart from pc to my video because i wanted to record the movie on to my video tape but somehow the pic is in black and white :(....

anyone knows why ??
 
That is a very common problem, that I myself have experienced before now. Basically, you need to go into your video card's control panel, and alter the type of signal going to the vcr to composite. Assuming you have already set the correct format (PAL or NTSC), that should solve the problem.
 
All video equipment in the UK is PAL. You would have to go out of your way to find multi-format TV and VCRs.

The s-video to s-video is quite straightforward as you found.

S-video to SCART I had read of problems with that so I did some checking on pinouts for s-video to SCART connectors. I found the following are typical:

s-video luminance connected to SCART pin 20 (composite video in)
s-video chrominance connected to SCART pin 15 (red video in)

In some pinouts pin20 is also shown as luminance
In some pinouts pin15 is also shown as chrominance

After a bit more digging I found that some tv sets have 2 SCART inputs
One can switch between composite and component RGB
The other can switch between composite and s-video

Your vcr is unlikely to have two SCART inputs or component RGB input. I assume that you would have to select s-video input in the vcr but if that does not work, try them all!

The vcr must have some means of switching because it is normally expecting to see composite video on pin 20 only. Not all vcrs can even accept s-video however you wire them, especially old ones. With no s-video input in the vcr, the composite video input of the vcr will be connected to the luminance (brightness/contrast) of the s-video, hence black and white picture. If that's the case you will have to use an s-video to composite adapter (cheap) and connect the composite video to the SCART connector.

Starman*
 
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You are absolutely spot on Starman....my vcr don't have s-video so I went out to buy the s-video adapter and now it's working perfectly fine.....

thanks for replied to this post guys.........
 
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