[MPlayer-users] SVHS grey. Was: Video capture thread: frame delta ~ 12.5fps

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:42:05PM +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 14:37, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > Fabio Papa wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > Hi all,
> > > yeah, yesterday I was getting a lot of these messages. But this morning,
> > > nothing at all. And it was always in the same part of video. If, for
> > > instance, I stopped my VCR, causing it to switch to television broadcast,
> > > the encoding was fine. Only that part of video was causing it....
> >
> > This message just means that the frame hasn't been delivered at the
> > expected time. It's usually caused either by bad signal, when bttv
> This brought a question to me: is it better to use SVHS input instead of 
> Composite like I'm doin' now? I'm sure it is, but I'm having problems using 
> it. Every time I try, I get a b/w picture, and very dotty too. When I connect 
> the same cable to TV, it works ok. Someone knows something about it?

That's because you left your capture card set to composite rather than
svideo! Hint: -tv input=# (try 2 or 3 for #).

Rich