S-Video came about to get around the traditionally bad comb filters in TV sets.  The luminance is separate and without the chroma would be B/W.  Otherwise, the luma portion should be of roughly the same if not exact quality as a that same portion of a composite signal.

Of course, each of RGB or any other analog component could appear as monochrome if connect to a composite input.

Hans Verkuil wrote:
On Friday 01 December 2006 16:05, Han Holl wrote:
  
Hello,

In the last two weeks there has been a long thread about video
through a scart -> s-video converter being monochrome.
As several members of this list already hinted, scart is a form
factor, but not necessarily a standard.
A standard conforming scart plug has no luminance/chrominance pinout,
and without serious looking electronics
(http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/rgb2svid/) conversion from rgb to
s-video is not possible.
The scart -> s-video adaptors are meant for devices that have a
switch of menu setting to change the pinout on the scart socket.

So the question is, what is 0.3.2q doing exactly ? The only plausible
answer would seem to be that it's using the composite signal, but if
I use the the composite signal from 0.8.1, the result is pretty bad:
much, much worse that the 'impossible' s-video signal from 0.3.2q.
(Of course it's possible that the composite cable I use is
responsible for the difference in picture and audio quality, but it
seems unlikely).

If there is a bug in 0.3.2q causing this, I would love to
re-introduce this bug in 0.8.

What I'd like to know is this: is it normal for composite video to be
hardly useable, or is the general opinion that composite maybe not
quite as good as s-video, but that it's good enough to watch
routinely, and that there must be something wrong with my composite
setup.
    

'Hardly useable'? I understood that the only problem was that it was 
B&W? Or are there other artifacts? If there are other problems with it, 
then I'd like to have a small MPEG sample so I can see what it looks 
like. It might give me a hint.

I haven't had time to look into this further, but you aren't 
forgotten :-)

	Hans

  
Cheers,

Han Holl


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