(Hope this doesn't duplicate -- didn't seem to get posted)

I just discovered pd-extended, and am now playing with live video via a PCI capture card. Very happy!

But can anyone tell me why running any of the Gem video examples seems to change my video capture card's mode to some non-PAL setting? (My camera is PAL). Can I specify this as a default setting somehow?

The OS here is Linux Ubuntu Studio (Hardy). I have a generic BT878-based tuner/capture card, which reports as follows after typing 'lspci':

00:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)

00:0e.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)

Many thanks in advance.

Matt Rhys-Roberts NE Wales, UK