Em28xx:cross row noise only with S-video input

Question

The nice thing about Linux is that every step you make, behind the corner there is always a surprise.
The surprise today is this:
I have two versions of Arch Linux installed, both updated to the state of art. One with the last driver em28xx of linuxtv.org (rev 13044) for PCTV USB2 and the other with the driver em28xx-new-hg 0.20090409-1 downloaded from AUR for the card Terratec Cinergy XS.
In both systems, the operation is perfect with both analog TV and composite video input.
If, however, capture from s-video in both systems appear horizontal lines that occupy the entire screen the width of ten pixels. The visibility of these lines depends very much on the underlying color. With the blue are very visible.
Note that in both systems have also installed windows that gives me very good results even for the S-video.
Changing the format of capture in mplayer and v4l-ctl2 in every way possible does not affect whatsoever the problem.
Is there any Guru em28xx that can give me a hand?
Thanks

Answer 1

The Sony GV-D200E is supposed to have a firewire out on it. Can't you just capture from that? Also, the Sony specs say that besides firewire it also has a composite video output. I would think that would be plenty good enough for hi-8 footage. I doubt very much if you would see any difference at all between that and the S-video given the source is hi-8.
If can't do any of that, does your miniDV cam have a "pass-through" feature? Most Canon's have it. Anyhow, depending on how it works you may be able to run the proper lines from the Sony unit into your DV unit while passing right through it into the puter. I don't think CS4 will do a live capture, so you may need to capture with WMM instead. If nothing else you can probably record from the Sony to your miniDV and then pass that on to the computer.
Good Luck