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When I send my video out (through the svideo) to an external video(ntsc) monitor, the image on the TV appears to be a lower color pallet compared to what is displayed on the monitor. For example imaging a spot light pointing directly onto a flat object, the fall off area seems to be banded/dithered similar to if you were using 256 colors. Also the image seems a little fuzzy. Is there any way to improve the output color to not create this banding from appearing around gradiants.

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You could "calibrate" color video and sharpness out via video panel, but be aware that results will vary widely between television screens. Also, I wouldn't use S-Video out if you're using a modern teevee screen; modern tvs have much better comb filters in them than older S-video hardware has, though I'm not certain this will solve your problem.

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Although the PVO does indeed do uncompressed video capture, my recollection <from SGI marketing literature of the period> was the Octane Personal Video Option was aimed more at uses that involved the O2 camera port, such as videoconferencing and web cam uses, with light-weight video capture a secondary function.

Fairly complete IRIX installs usually include "inperson" for videoconferencing <see "man inperson">. SGI also marketed a software program, <sgimeeting> that they touted as including some compatability with Microsoft's dataconferencing product. The PVO offered a less expensive option for those that didn't need the higher-end capabilities of the Octane Digital Video and/or Octane Compression Options.

There is some info about how the PVO handles colorspace at TechPubs.

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