[Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr
Steve
beforewisdom at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 5 23:25:02 CEST 2005
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:beforewisdom at yahoo.com]
> 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: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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Steve
>>
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