Lan Barnes wrote:
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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?
Yes. The decoder box is like the output of your VCR; it only provides a
single frequency for the TV set and you have to tune the decoder.
Tuning a decoder box is done using the IR-Blaster part of the PVR-150.
- 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.)
Why don't you use a S-Video cable between the TV and the Myth box? You
have an S-Video input on the TV. Unless your DVD player has a S-Video
output that you prefer instead?
- 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.
You don't need the converter. Just use a regular S-Video cable from the
video card to the TV. You will get a MUCH better picture. Not that the
dongle mixers are total pieces of crap or anything...
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.
Doesn't the VCR have a composite video output from an RCA jack? It
provides a much better signal path than having to go through the
modulator in a VCR.
If you can get composite video, then send that to the PVR-150 on its
composite video input jack.
Looks like I need Fry's after all. Too many thingies to trust Radio Shack
to have them all.
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Gus
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