S-Video???
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So I have S-Video on my laptop and I have S-Video on my TV. Is there any way I can use the S-Video to capture stuff off the TV onto the laptop? Or What can I do with S-Video? I'm just kind of curious to see/hear what people have done (if anything) with S-Video... - Rex
code-frog wrote:
Is there any way I can use the S-Video to capture stuff off the TV onto the laptop?
It's an analog format your laptop generates and your TV can display, that provides a bit better quality to the signal. It's not for capturing, unless your laptop has an s-video input that it can use do digitize the movie. And of course, why would your TV generate s-video? Your TV takes input signals, unless it has a VCR/DVD/tuner built in and some output connectors. More on S-Video.[^] Marc
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code-frog wrote:
Is there any way I can use the S-Video to capture stuff off the TV onto the laptop?
It's an analog format your laptop generates and your TV can display, that provides a bit better quality to the signal. It's not for capturing, unless your laptop has an s-video input that it can use do digitize the movie. And of course, why would your TV generate s-video? Your TV takes input signals, unless it has a VCR/DVD/tuner built in and some output connectors. More on S-Video.[^] Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithOkay, my VCR has S-Video and my VCR is my cable receiver. Does that get me anything? Really wanting to capture one of the replays of Oklahoma Vs. Boise State for my brother in law currently in boot camp in Texas who missed it. Going down in a week to see him.
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So I have S-Video on my laptop and I have S-Video on my TV. Is there any way I can use the S-Video to capture stuff off the TV onto the laptop? Or What can I do with S-Video? I'm just kind of curious to see/hear what people have done (if anything) with S-Video... - Rex
So my google efforts turned this up: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1426[^] Is there anything else/better out there that anyone is aware of? That's all I could find.
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So my google efforts turned this up: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1426[^] Is there anything else/better out there that anyone is aware of? That's all I could find.
That's a tuner card, not a capture card. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Okay, my VCR has S-Video and my VCR is my cable receiver. Does that get me anything? Really wanting to capture one of the replays of Oklahoma Vs. Boise State for my brother in law currently in boot camp in Texas who missed it. Going down in a week to see him.
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Okay, my VCR has S-Video and my VCR is my cable receiver. Does that get me anything? Really wanting to capture one of the replays of Oklahoma Vs. Boise State for my brother in law currently in boot camp in Texas who missed it. Going down in a week to see him.
You could always. Ahem. Download it.
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That's a tuner card, not a capture card. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithTuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.
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Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.
And I get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled againExamples of the software would be???
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You could always. Ahem. Download it.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?Let's call it a "learning" exercise as well. :cool:
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Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.
And I get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled againDavid Stone wrote:
Tuner cards are capture cards.
Well, if it's just a tuner card, advertising that's a capture card is misleading IMO because it doesn't have a video input jack. It just grabs the signal off the air. So it isn't a true video capture card IMO. If code-frog has the game on tape and he wants to capture it, he'll need a true capture card. If the game hasn't aired yet, then yeah, a tuner card with capture ability will work. :) Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Examples of the software would be???
The software comes with the card. For example, I use an All in Wonder card (and software) that turn one of my PCs into a DVR so that I can tape shows and then rip them to my Zune.
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David Stone wrote:
Tuner cards are capture cards.
Well, if it's just a tuner card, advertising that's a capture card is misleading IMO because it doesn't have a video input jack. It just grabs the signal off the air. So it isn't a true video capture card IMO. If code-frog has the game on tape and he wants to capture it, he'll need a true capture card. If the game hasn't aired yet, then yeah, a tuner card with capture ability will work. :) Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithNo. Most TV tuner cards (like the Hauppage WinTV-PVR-250[^]) have input jacks for RCA, Coax, and S-Video. I've never seen anybody differentiate between tuner cards and capture cards.
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Let's call it a "learning" exercise as well. :cool:
Using BitTorrent (or my preferred method, Usenet downloads) is good for learning as well. ;) If you really want to get video off the wire, I'd recommend looking at this site[^]. They've got reviews on tuner cards, software, etc. You can actually build a pretty nice PVR for really cheap. You're no stranger to linux, so you could easily put together a MythTV system and have a free Tivo replacement. :)
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Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.
And I get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled againDavid Stone wrote:
My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.
My recommendation would be a hardware card (hardware mpeg encoder instead of using your CPU) by anyone but hauppage. I've had both a PCI and a USB tuner from them that suffered from a continual stream of driver self destructs that could only be solved by multiple reboots and full un/reinstall procedures. THe USB one also failed to be detected properly by windows for automatic driver install. Hauppage insisted that the problem was with my hardware despite the identical problem occuring on all three systems I had access to test on. :mad:X| :omg::wtf: I replaced it with an ATI PCIe1x card which installed beatifully, came with better software and has been trouble free ever since.
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