Media Center TV

[Guest]

Can you use a a cable box and hook it up to your computers graphics card
through a S-Video port to get TV on Windows Media Center?

 

[Mac]

Not too sure about that - but what I have done in the past is to route cable
tv from its decoder via a DVD/VCR out to both a TV screen and a USB TV
capture-card on my PC over coaxial cable. Then I could get the cable TV onto
the PC. S-video (in) if you have such a thing on your PC would probably give
poor quality.

 

[Guest]

Not too sure about that - but what I have done in the past is to route cable
tv from its decoder via a DVD/VCR out to both a TV screen and a USB TV
capture-card on my PC over coaxial cable. Then I could get the cable TV onto
the PC. S-video (in) if you have such a thing on your PC would probably give
poor quality.

But can you still do that even if it has poor quility??

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Usually the S-video connector on a video card is for OUTPUT to a TV or monitor.

To INPUT video you need a capture/tuner card or USB capture/tuner device.

I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 with a S-video input from my digital cable box
and the quality is very, very good.

 

[Mac]

That's my (untested opinion). Are you sure you have S-Video in? Many PC's
have S-Video out , but not in. Plus do you have an S-Video source from the
cable box?

Google for S-Video eg http://www.weethet.nl/english/video_connect_pc2tv.php
might be a place to start... more here...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...s=SUNA,SUNA:2007-17,SUNA:en&q="s-video+in"+PC

 

[Mac]

What outputs do you have on your cable-decoder?

But can you still do that even if it has poor quility??

 

[Guest]

What outputs do you have on your cable-decoder?

A S-Video port and a Graphics Card with the same thing

 

[Mac]

So you have two S-Video out? I really think you'll need a TV capture card