Lan Barnes wrote:
OK, the Hauppauge card has a yellow RCA, a coax, and a black thingie. Some
are probly In, maybe all.
Yellow RCA is for composite video.
Coax is for RF input, use 75 ohm cable. RG-6 or RG-59. This can be
connected to either your cable provider or an antenna.
The black "thingie" is S-Video.
The nVidia GForce has a VGA pinout and a black thingie. All probly Out.
You don't say what the make and model of your nVidia card is. If the
pinout of the black "thingie" is a DIN-9, which looks very similar to a
PS/2 connector then it is probably a S-Video connector. Especially if
the card came with a little dongle that has a yellow RCA connector on
one end and a plug that matches the card on the other.
And speaking of cards, the nVidia cards/drivers have some weird bugs.
Search the nVidia forum for my name to see my bug reports and a work-around.
The TV has a coax and two sets of red-yellow-white In (TV, Video 1, and
Video 2 soft switching from the TV remote). There is also a white-yellow
RCA TV Out and a mysterious blue-red RCA in the In block called "Color
Input." Also a mysterious female black thingie.
Red - Right Audio Channel
White - Left Audio Channel
Yellow - Composite Video
So let's try this. I take the coax from Cox to the Hauppauge. Then I have
to take something from the nVidia to the TV. This almost certainly has to
come from the female black thingie on the video card to the female black
thingie on the TV.
I think you would be better off using a splitter on the RF cable so that
you can watch TV and record at the same time even if the TV and the
computer are tuned to different channels.
So I need a female-female black thingie-to-black thingie cable, and I need
it on a Sunday: RADIO SHACK!
You can get a better selection and price at Fry's although an even
better place is Industrial Liquidators on Convoy St. But they are closed
on Sunday.
I'll google "video cable standards" and see what comes up.
You should read your manuals one of these days. All the information is
in there :)
Gus
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