> I just tried using xawtv and a couple of other utilities, and > they seem > to receive a signal on the channels that should have signals, however > the image is in black and white, and it is not 'stable'. It's quite When that happened to me, it was because the capture was defaulting to PAL frequencies. Try specifying the mode to be NTSC (I assume you're in the US, but maybe that was a bad assumption) from the xawtv commandline. Blue skies... Todd