I just posted this to the mplayer-users mailing list, but I feel since its not mplayer-specific it could be relevant to v4l itself. Please read and advise me. Thank you! Hi All, Hardware: Playstation 2 with Sony S-Video lead into S-video input on a Hauppauge WinTV bt848 card. Software: Mplayer 0.90RC1 (also tried xawtv, zapping), kernel: Linux cyberstorm 2.4.19 #1 Wed Oct 30 12:41:01 GMT 2002 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Does not have v4l2 afaik. Problem: When I select S-Video input in the software, I see the Playstaton2 but in black and white only. I have confirmed that all hardware is PAL and the software is set to PAL. I have also tried combinarition of NTSC in software. Additional Info: Reboot into Win98, use Hauppauge's own TV viewer, select S-Video and PAL, and the Playstation 2 shows up in glorious colour. Have also confirmed it works perfectly using S-Video on a PAL television set. Conclusion: something on the linux side of things is not allowing me to set the tuner's S-Video input to include colour channels. At this point I cannot proceed myself. I tried this for mplayer and got the PS2 in b/w only: mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:input=2:width=640:height=460 -vo xv Help! Many thanks, James Green