- Help setting a TV signal
- Posted by Name on April 2nd, 2008
Hello to anyone reading my post,
when I bought my computer 6 months ago it came with a TV tuner. I bought it
in the USA. Right now I am living in Germany and was planing on buying a
video game console (Nintendo's Wii to be precise). I don't own a TV and don't
want to buy one, so I decided that my computer was good enough. But I tried
first to test my computer TV capabilities before I bought anything, so I
pluged a standar DVD player to the yellow and white plugs of my TV-reciever
box (it comes with an S-video, a normal Antena connector and an RCA
connector) to try to configure my Media Center. After a long time clicking
here and there I finally came very very close of doing so, but the image just
showed up for a couple of frames and then it just when black, tough the music
of the DVD was still runing. I don't know if it is that my TV reciever can't
take PAL (which, beeing I no expert, seems not too probable, because I can
see something, very few, but someting) or what, but I am tired of trying and
trying, does anyone can help me with my problem?
- Posted by Curious on April 2nd, 2008
What Make and Model of TV tuner does it have? The tuner vendors standard
(non MCE) software may support video capture from the S-video or
composite(yellow) input connection.
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- Posted by Name on April 2nd, 2008
My tv tuner is an Avermedia M039. I was thinking about trying with a S-video
cable instead of the RCA. Do you think it would help? I also don't really
know if I configured correctly the WMC, and I also don't know if there is a
way of going to the "video" channel (like in the TVs, that you can click on
the TV/video button and the video mode is for the RCA conector) or
something...
thanks for the prompt answer, by the way.
- Posted by Curious on April 3rd, 2008
Yellow composite RCA connection video is degraded S-video since it joins the
image and color signals instead of keeping them separate.
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- Posted by RalfG on April 3rd, 2008
There are potentially two problems. One is that the tuner could be NTSC
only. The card's specifications should indicate if that is the case. It
seems to be NTSC judging from your test results. Frame rates, synch
frequency and picture resolution are all different from PAL. I know German
AM and FM radio space their stations at different frequency intervals than
North America, don't know about the TV though.
The other problem is that there may be a time delay of several seconds
between when the game console sends its video and the computer finally
displays it. The delay will certainly be there if you use Media Center to
run the tuner. It wasn't designed for the purpose you intend. Other
tuner/capture software might not have the built in delay.
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