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1) There are 3 composite inputs and one S-video

2) I tried all 3 composite ports, with various settings in xawtv, then I decided to go for the s-video which seemed to work just fine...

4) Are the osprey-2xx drivers compatible with the osprey-100?

Another thing I noticed once I got the system up and running is that video grabbing at CIF/SIF resolutions work fine, but when going for 4SIF/VGA the system really clogs up and stops working well (think 1fpM)... the cpu load is not a factor (it's around 0.1 on a dual amd system)

When no video is detected on the selected port on the Osprey-100 the result is a capture of a 'blue' frame. This is true no matter what OS (Linux/Solaris/Windows). Questions:

1) what types of inputs do you have on the o100? There have been variants of the o1xx over the years, some with 2 composite and 1 svideo, some with 3 composite and 1 svideo and one version with 1 composite and 1 svideo.

2) What input are you using and if composite, where is it located in relation to the svideo input? For example is it next to it, 1 composite connector away, etc. 

3) If composite have you tried moving your input to a different composite location? The mapping of inputs to physical connectors has changed over the years. So it is very likely that composite 1 on windows != composite 1 on Linux.

4) Today is 5/31/2002. We should be posting our open-source beta osprey-2xx Linux drivers today. Half of this driver is the video driver. If all else fails we could have you try this source video driver.