[Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr

[Mike Zarek]

"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:beforewisdom at yahoo.com] 
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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