Re: How to get kwintv going with a vcr

Mike Zarek wrote:
> Then you want to come out of the Modulator box via coax to the TV in of
> the TV card ..  

Done.


> Set the kdetv input as TV and select channel 3 .. That's
> where you should find it...
> 

Did not work.  Instead I used the channel wizard.  I made progress again.

I now get two squares on the screen.
The bottom square has nothing.
The top square has video from the vcr ( yay! ), but it is in black and 
white ( the video is in color )

I am also not getting any sound.

Do I want to tweak the frequency of the "channel" by hand?

Steve

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:00 PM
> To: KWinTV General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr
> 
> Mike Zarek wrote:
> 
>>"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..
> 
> 
> Okay.
> 
> I'm trying to connect my vcr to my haugapuge TV card  and watch the
> output in kdetv.
> 
> When I press "Devices" on the kdetv menu I am told that it is seeing
> "bt878 HaugePauge video4linx(/dev/video ).
> 
> I found the manual that came with my TV card.  It has the following
> jacks labeled thusly in the manual:
> 
> - FM radio connector ( looks like a coaxial )
> - TV  Connector ( for antenna or Cable TV input )
> - line out ( audio output )
> - S-Video input and camera connector
> - line in ( audio input )
> - "IR" remote control receiver socket
> 
> I went out to Radio Shack ( US electronics store ) and bought an "RF
> Modulator".  I hooked that to my vcr and my hauge pauge card thus:
> 
> RF mod "to tv" jack  <-- coaxial cable --> tv card "TV Connector" jack
> 
> RF mod yellow "video jack"  <-- rf cable --> vcr yellow video out jack
> RF mod red "audio jack"     <-- rf cable --> vcr red "audio right" jack
> Rf mod white "audio jack"   <-- rf cable --> vcr white "audio left" jack
> 
> The light on the RF modulator was on, indicating a signal was going into
> it.  The RF modulator has a swtich for channel 3 or 4 ( I picked 3 ) and
> it had an "OHMS" switch with 75 or 1K.  I picked 75.  Also on the RF
> modulator was another coaxial jack labeled "ANT IN" and and "S Video"
> jack.
> 
> The VRC was on channel 3.
> 
> I then went to kdetv | settings | configure kdetv | channels | new
> 
> I picked "composite 1" for "source" and "auto" for "encoding"
> 
> I got further along, instead of static I got a solid blue screen with no
> sound.




Steve

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