On Sun, January 14, 2007 10:30 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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? >
Can the TV have a live S-Vid _and_ coax in at the same time? I would doubt it. If not, I can design a system that will let me use coax switches to put the video tape to the TV _or_ the Hauppauge. But it requires coax into the TV. Remember, I have 3 inputs on the TV and 4 peripherals to input ... unless we drop the DVD player and play DVDs on xena. Must think ... ouch, hurts! BUT, if I don't split COX and send coax to the TV, how do I record one and watch another? No, coax is the way to go. > 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. Yes but see above. Are there S-Video switches/splitters? Flexibility is more important to me than marginal improvements in signal to the TV. BTW, the documents are all found (and the study is cleaner). The PVR-150 says it sent me a S-Vid -> Composite converter, but I don't remember it and can't find it. It's not the sort of thing that would get discarded or moved -- not around here. > > If you can get composite video, then send that to the PVR-150 on its > composite video input jack. > Who's handling sound in all this? Also, what's the story with that little wire that CD/DVD payers ship with that's supposed to go to pins on the sound card? What's that all about? I'm going to leave for Fry's in about 10 minutes. Not to hurry you, but to let you know your window. Deeply grateful for the help and advice. BTW, I seem to type faster than this Gyration keyboard can keep up with. If you knew how fast I type, that would shock you. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
