[MPlayer-users] mplayer won't let me watch tv in color from saa7134 tv capture card

[Reid Fleming]

i'm using MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 on a Athlon 1800 on Ubuntu 6.10

picked up a cheapie phillips-SAA7134-based tv capture card and 
got it to work using

    # modprobe saa7134 card=3 tuner=39

then, after putting the following into ~/.mplayer/config

      tv=driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:fps=25:chanlist=us-bcast:\
        channel=4:norm=4:audiorate=32000:adevice=/dev/dsp:input=0:\
        amode=1:immediatemode=0:volume=100:width=640:height=480:

and using

    # mplayer -vf pp=md,crop=624:400:0:0 tv://

i'm able to watch tv, but not in color.  "tvtime" displays in color,
but "mplayer" does not.

i tried tweaking hue and saturation values, as well as changing the
card number and tuner numbers, with no difference.

has anybody run into this before?  is this a hardware issue?

thanks,
reid