Black bar at bottom of video & colors question

[lexam]

Hi all,

I have a ZM 1.24.4 installation running great (overall). I have a Kodicom clone card with 8 inputs (BT878) and 7 simple analog cameras on it. The first 6 cameras I installed all work great. The 7th one shows a short black bar at the bottom of the image. It seems as if it's a resolution issue, but no matter how low I set the resolution, the black bar is always there. I will attach an screenshot of the video. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Another question concerns colors. As you can see in the attached image, the image looks almost as if it's black and white, whereas the camera is color of course and there is more than enough light at the time the screenshot was taken. All my monitors are configured to use the YUYV capture palette as this is the only one that works with my setup (except for "grey"). Is this normal? OK, I know the cameras are all cheap ones, but is this image normal, or is there something I can do to make it better?

Thank you in advance for any help!

[jbmia]

Not sure what's going on there and others know way more about this sort of stuff than I do, but I've found that playing with the capture pallette can have an effect on these types of issues.. I have a monochrome cam I've been testing on a similar card and and oddly enough when I changed to a color pallette (e..g, BG24) the image settled down... I'm new to capture cards myself, but you might give it a try.. can't hurt anyway..

jbmia

[lexam]

Thanks for the reply, however I have played with all the picture palettes to no avail. The black bar at the bottom is exactly the same...

[lexam]

Any other suggestions? Could it be a defective camera?

[lexam]

Also, can anyone think of any reasons why the images are almost black and white? Cheap cameras? Cabling?