First of all thanks for sharing all this valuable information on this forum, it helped me a lot in the past. I didn't find any solution for my problem so maybe you guys would have any clue on this.
I'm having a strange issue with my setup, I'm using a Framemeister XRGB Mini unit for video capture purposes.
I tested the Framemeister with that setup:
Console => SCART RGB => XRGB => HDMI => LCD screen
And the image displays properly without problems.
When using that setup:
Console => SCART RGB => XRGB => HDMI => Elgato game Capture HD => Computer
The rendered image looks overall OK except only in the areas where the dominant color is red/purple/pink-ish the scanlines don't look good/are misplaced, making the image look pretty bad whenever big red sprites are displayed.
From left to right: CRT screen photo, XRGB to LCD photo, XRGB + Elgato capture feed - click for full view:
Since the problem only occurs when going through the Elgato I believe this is some kind of encoding issue? Did any of you already acknowledge this particular problem?
I was able to mitigate the issue by setting the XRGB HDMI output color range to limited and adjusting the contrast/brightness to get back good black levels but the effect is still visible and some other colors are crushed so I'd like to find another way. I tried to tweak the scanline settings with no luck. Whenever I change the ZOOM setting the scanline settings are compleletely messed up and look very bad so I keep the zoom to default. For some reason when I set the HDMI range to full in the XRGB and HDMI color range setting to "Expanded" in the Elgato I get a red-ish image. So I set Elgato setting to "Standard".
Below are the specific settings of the setup:
Spoiler
Consoles are NTSC versions, with RGB Euro SCART outputs
XRGB firmware 2.02 with Euro SCART RGB adapter
Elgato Game Capture HD (standard version, not HD60) software v 2.11.43
- Encoding device is set to software/built-in
- When I set HDMI Color Range to "Expanded" I get a redish image
XRGB firmware 2.02 with Euro SCART RGB adapter
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HDMI_OUTPUT: 720_60p
IMAGE_MODE: NATURAL
SCREEN_SET: SMART_X2
COLOR_SET
- BRIGHTNESS: 30
- GAMMA: 8
- BLACK: 2
- SHARPNESS: 1
VISUAL_SET
- AUTO_SCALER: GAME
ZOOM: OFF
SYNC_MODE: OFF
HDMI_SET
- DeepColor: OFF
- OUTPUT_RANGE: FULL
SPECIAL
- A/D_LEVEL: 175
- SCANLINE
-- INT_LINE: 100
-- INT_SMOOTH: 100
Elgato Game Capture HD (standard version, not HD60) software v 2.11.43
- Encoding device is set to software/built-in
- When I set HDMI Color Range to "Expanded" I get a redish image