Let me start at the top by apologizing for getting testy back in th keyboard thread. I shouldn't type after 9:30. The combination of feeling-like-not-being-heard plus what psychologists call "a need to always be right" leads one to snap at the very people who are providing help.
I'd like to say I will never do it again, but, well, this is me. But I promise to feel just as bad the next time I do it. On Sat, January 13, 2007 11:27 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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. > desc: "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x]" IIRC the card was a donation from one of the Allens takng pity on a CB. Picture Lan in a dirty overcoat on a corner muttering "hey buddy, got any spare peripherals?" No dongle provided. > 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. We won't worry until something doesn't work. Then we'll blame the card immediately until it turns out to be my mistake. > >> 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. > OK, this is the meat of the question. - we presently have only Cox basic. No decoder box. But that may change some day. If I split the coax today, it works fine. If I spit it with a decoder, I'm thinking that the decoder needs to be in stream before the split, and tuning needs to be done there no matter what the Hauppauge is tuned to. Is this correct? - without a decoder, my best idea is to split and use a S-Vid-to-RCA converter to take the Myth output into VIDEO 1. The split Cox signal would go into TV on the TV. (VIDEO 2 is presently devoted to the DVD player's output.) - I presently have the Cox signal coming through the VHS tape recorder, which is sub-optimal for many reasons akes channe 3 unusable for when we upgrade from Cox basic; fuzzes the TV when the tape player is on but not playing). I _could_ take the videotape into a video channel on the TV, but then I won't have an input channel for the Myth output, and the split signal is for nought. So my best ida for that is to find a way to take the videotape player into the Hauppauge and convert my tapes, which is a goal anyway (we have some historical family tapes I want to preserve for the kids). So let's try this: I split Cox's signal and send one line into TV on the TV, one line to xena (let's call the Myth box by her name). I take the nVidia S-Vis from xena through a converter to the RCA on the TV's VIDEO 1. On the coax input to the Hauppauge, I put a left-right switch (I know those degrade the signal, but maybe not too much). Right comes in from Cox, left comes in from the videotape player. Looks like I need Fry's after all. Too many thingies to trust Radio Shack to have them all. >> 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 :) > > Manuals are for wimps ;-) OK, not sure I have them all or where they are. Part of the reason the boss let me do what she views as a foo-foo project was to get the equipment out of her study, which looks like someone fragged a small computer store. Whatever manuals I have are in there somewhere. Don't tell Janet I called her the boss. I woud suffer greatly for that. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
