[Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr

[Steve]

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:beforewisdom at yahoo.com] 
> 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:beforewisdom at yahoo.com]
>>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.
> 
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> 
> Steve
> 
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Steve

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