- Playing X Box through Media Center
- Posted by dice5k on December 6th, 2005
I have just purchased the original X Box and would like to play it through my
PC. I have Windows Media Center and my PC has A/V inputs in the back of the
machine as well as the front (it is a Sony Vaio). I don't know how to switch
the input on my monitor so that I can see the X Box. Any help???
- Posted by Gary Tsang on December 6th, 2005
You won't be able to play through the Media Center app, as all video is
buffered by ~ 2 seconds..
If sony has an application that allows you to use the a/v inputs through
another program, that might work. You'll need to see if they do. It's not
something that all Media Center pcs can do.
Hope this helps.
--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
"dice5k" <dice5k@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83C0915D-0B8D-42E4-8307-3AC3E83923E8@microsoft.com...
>I have just purchased the original X Box and would like to play it through
>my
> PC. I have Windows Media Center and my PC has A/V inputs in the back of
> the
> machine as well as the front (it is a Sony Vaio). I don't know how to
> switch
> the input on my monitor so that I can see the X Box. Any help???
- Posted by TxTaquito on December 6th, 2005
I have found that a tv tuner built for Windows and not the MCE environment
will work great. Use a Monster cable for the xbox that has svideo out and run
it through the svideo in on the tuner. Set the input in the program to svideo
and voila, you have vid from ur xbox on your PC screen. This monster cable
also has digital fiber audio support if your sound card supports it.
"Gary Tsang" wrote:
> You won't be able to play through the Media Center app, as all video is
> buffered by ~ 2 seconds..
>
> If sony has an application that allows you to use the a/v inputs through
> another program, that might work. You'll need to see if they do. It's not
> something that all Media Center pcs can do.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Gary Tsang
> Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
> http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
>
>
> "dice5k" <dice5k@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:83C0915D-0B8D-42E4-8307-3AC3E83923E8@microsoft.com...
> >I have just purchased the original X Box and would like to play it through
> >my
> > PC. I have Windows Media Center and my PC has A/V inputs in the back of
> > the
> > machine as well as the front (it is a Sony Vaio). I don't know how to
> > switch
> > the input on my monitor so that I can see the X Box. Any help???
>
>
>
- Posted by dice5k on December 8th, 2005
Sounds easy enough, but not real sure I know exactly what to do here. What
(and is this like a splitter that you can get at Radioshack?) and where would
I get a TV tuner? I currently have a coxial jack a A/V input (2 of those) and
a on my PC. When you say 'set the input in the program to svideo' I dont
know how to do that. That was my issue to start, I had the A/V inputs plugged
in, but could not switch the inputs to get the X Box to appear on my monitor.
From what it sounds like......I need to purchase a TV tuner and a svideo
cable for the x Box?
Thanks for your help in advance.
"TxTaquito" wrote:
> I have found that a tv tuner built for Windows and not the MCE environment
> will work great. Use a Monster cable for the xbox that has svideo out and run
> it through the svideo in on the tuner. Set the input in the program to svideo
> and voila, you have vid from ur xbox on your PC screen. This monster cable
> also has digital fiber audio support if your sound card supports it.
>
> "Gary Tsang" wrote:
>
> > You won't be able to play through the Media Center app, as all video is
> > buffered by ~ 2 seconds..
> >
> > If sony has an application that allows you to use the a/v inputs through
> > another program, that might work. You'll need to see if they do. It's not
> > something that all Media Center pcs can do.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > --
> > Gary Tsang
> > Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
> > http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
> >
> >
> > "dice5k" <dice5k@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:83C0915D-0B8D-42E4-8307-3AC3E83923E8@microsoft.com...
> > >I have just purchased the original X Box and would like to play it through
> > >my
> > > PC. I have Windows Media Center and my PC has A/V inputs in the back of
> > > the
> > > machine as well as the front (it is a Sony Vaio). I don't know how to
> > > switch
> > > the input on my monitor so that I can see the X Box. Any help???
> >
> >
> >
