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   natkite: I can get vlc to play video from /dev/video1 and I've tried most PAL and NTSC video formats but the colors are lost as a faint banding superimposed of a grayscale image
   <br> *on
   <br> this is composite video from a sony handycam CCD-TR315E. The playback menu has a "On PAL TV" setting and a "NTSC 4.43" setting.
   <br> when hooked to the TV I can see color
   <br> the capture card shows the first frame with full color. but the rest is just bw