During the week i went to Maplin and bought a scart lead with audio and an s-video lead attached. I wanted to connect my freeview box up to my pc, i do get a perfect picture however its in black and white. Any ideas on why this is and how i could fix it?
S-Video is a component video signal - the luminence of the picture is carried seperately to the colour information which would probably explain why it's in black and white.
Composite is the wrong setting - a composite signal is all the video signal information mixed together
Thinking about it, I don't think that digiboxes give an S-video output on their Scarts.
The Chrominence Output pin (the pin that gives the colour part of the S-Video signal) on the Scart plug is the same one as the RGB Red-in pin. The Luminence pin (the black & white part of the S-video signal) is the same as that used by the standard RGB output of a digibox..... hence - i think - why you're getting black and white and not colour.
Unless your box has a setting in the menus to output S-Video I don't think you'll get any S-video out of it
OK, well CVBS (which I hadn't heard of, but have just looked up) is composite video which is what you'd connect to the 'video in' socket of your PC (usually a yellow phono socket).
You probably don't really want to use Composite as the quality isn't as good, but your freeview box doesn't give you an s-video output, only RGB, which your PC (almost definately) won't accept
