Re: How to get kwintv going with a vcr

Mike Zarek wrote:
> Do you have a patch cord running from Line (audio) Out of the TV card to
> Line (audio) in of your sound card?

LOL! I just thought of that when I tried xawtv-radio and got no sound. 
I put such a cable in and got the radio part of the radio card working.

Still no dice with sound ( even for static ) for kdetv

Steve


> 
> Mike
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 5:15 PM
> To: KWinTV General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr
> 
> Mike Zarek wrote:
> 
>>Now you need to set the TV standard for the output of the VCR .. 
>>
>>If you are in America, it will be NTSC (North America.. Not sure about
>>south)
>>If you are in Europe, it will be PAL ...
> 
> 
> I'm in North America.  Setting the TV standard made the second square go
> away, and the one with the video became clearer, got color, and go
> larger.  It is still a tiny bit fuzzy/unsharp.  Is that the nature of
> the beast or can that be tweaked.
> 
> I still get no sound.
> 
> I went to to settings | sound.  When I picked "alsa" as a mixer kdetv
> crashed.  When I picked OSS Mixer Plugin I got another menu titled
> /dev/mixer with choices like "video" or "line in"  I tried a few, but no
> dice with the sound.
> 
> I play music from my cd successfully on my computer.
> 
> Any suggestions about what to check?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>>I don't have KDETV on a system with a TV card anymore, so I can't tell
> 
> 
>>you where to find it.. But it's a regional setting....
>>
>>That should fix the color/sound problem ......
>>
>>Mike
>> 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Steve [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:31 PM
>>To: KWinTV General Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [Kwintv] 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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