Faulty Capacitor question

[Scouser]

Concerning the old bad capacitor and black and white output (which i THINK my card suffers from).

My MJPEG is black and white on my TV, ok sounds like the above problem, BUT the test signal from the Quick Connect program is in COLOR ????????

Do i have a bad card or not ???

Cheers
Scouser

[Questor]

I have had this happen with a bad frames in a capture. After these bad frames everything in the mjpeg is B&W.

[Phil Pugh]

Just to check...

You haven't recorded in the worng colour system have you ? E.g. used NTSC when recording PAL? It will give B&W also.

[Questor]

That last message reminds me, if you have S-video hooked up but have composite selected it will give you B&W on my system.

[Scouser]

Hi,

My setup is all correct, i've double checked EVERYTHING, and tried about 4 sets of driver/vid tools combinations, and via Composite and SVHS output.

Applies also to some video footage i rendered from a 3D package using matrox MJPEG

The weird thing is that if i record to VHS then play it back, it's in color ???

If it werent for the quick calibration screen being in color i'd say my TV was screwed (or as matrox tech page says 'your TV doesn't support 4.43mhz carrier signal'), this also applies to a 4 yeard old portable with SCART.

It's all very strange.

I think i'll just have to send it back to Ireland for replacement or as someone else managed to do, get matrox to send a replacement capacitor and get someone experienced to do the work.

Any other ideas, comments welcome

Scouser