Re: How to get kwintv going with a vcr

"line in" on the tv card (physically on the back of the card bracket)
usually refers to audio ... Most huappage cards (I don't know what model
you have) require a pigtail to breakout the individual jacks from a
multi-jack on back (looks similar to S-video, but more pins)... You are
looking for a "video in" jack .. It will be a female RCA connector, just
like the one on back of the VCR....

Mike
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:01 PM
To: KWinTV General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr

Mike Zarek wrote:
> If I'm reading this right, you can't do this......  You have two 
> different types of video signals involved.....
> 
> The video out of the VCR is a composite signal.  The S-video input of 
> the TV card is not a composite signal input. (neither is it component,

> but that doesn't matter here).  It's "S-video".
> 
> Unless you run that composite output of the VCR thru some kind of 
> conversion to a S-video signal, it is simply not going to work.  Your 
> TV card should have a composite video input (typically a yellow jack) 
> and that's what you need to run the VCR output to......

Okay.

You read right.  I went to radio shack to ask the clerk for a cable that
would go from vcr antanne jack into my tv card.  He told me that instead
I needed a cable to go from "video out" on my vcr to "svideo" on my tv
card ( hauge pauge ).

I tried your suggestion.  I ran a line from "video out" on my vcr to
"line in" ( not yellow, no colors for any jack ) on my tv card.

Nothing happened when I scanned for channels with the wizard.
Nothing happened when I went to "Settings | Channels" and tried values
different then "television".

The VRC was playing on its channel 3.

Any ideas for what else I can try?

Thanks much in advance.

Steve

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