more tv hookup questions

[pheasant16]

With spodosaurus' help last week figured out how to play back dvd's from
an external hard drive to fancy new tv.

An old Dell laptop PIII 600mhz, with a PCMIA USB2 card will be the
output source. It has an S video and a vga port. The tv has both of
these input jacks. I do have an old dvd player and vcr hooked up to the
2 existing a/v inputs but if you all tell me S-video can easily unhook
one of the a/v jacks to accommodate the s video.

No intention of using the tv as a computer monitor other than dvd playback.

Thanks

Mark

 

[Paul]

With spodosaurus' help last week figured out how to play back dvd's from
an external hard drive to fancy new tv.

An old Dell laptop PIII 600mhz, with a PCMIA USB2 card will be the
output source. It has an S video and a vga port. The tv has both of
these input jacks. I do have an old dvd player and vcr hooked up to the
2 existing a/v inputs but if you all tell me S-video can easily unhook
one of the a/v jacks to accommodate the s video.

No intention of using the tv as a computer monitor other than dvd playback.

Thanks

Mark

VGA offers more bandwidth, for a sharper picture. S-video and composite
are bandwidth limited, which is why text looks so bad. For video playback,
either will probably work. Video is not nearly as demanding, as trying
to read five point text fonts. But you should still test with all output
options available to you, and make up your own mind. For example,
on my TV set, composite input looks dreadful. I cannot do anything
with that, except perhaps look at the output of my old VCR. That
looks OK. But for computer video, my colors are all wrong, if I
output to composite.

Are you sure the PIII 600MHz, has enough computing power for all movie
formats ? To start, have you tested using just the LCD screen of the
laptop ?

Paul

 

[pheasant16]

Are you sure the PIII 600MHz, has enough computing power for all movie
formats ? To start, have you tested using just the LCD screen of the
laptop ?

Paul

Now that you mention it, it most likely has only as cd drive. DOH!!!!! LOL
This old tightwad may need to invest in something newer.

What I was hoping to do was use something I have lying around collecting
dust that I could hide behind the tv. Course these new tv's with no crt
have lots of room behind to hide a tower I guess.

 

[pheasant16]

Now that you mention it, it most likely has only as cd drive. DOH!!!!! LOL

Just realized I don't need the dvd drive as the videos are on the
external hard drive. I need coffee!! (and more research as to what
software I need)

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

Just realized I don't need the dvd drive as the videos are on the
external hard drive. I need coffee!! (and more research as to what
software I need)

Check out the Mediaplayer Classic Home Cinema.
It's based on the original Media Player Classic program but with many
improvements.

Here is one link to the web site hosting the software

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

With it being freeware it's worth taking it out for a test drive, or movie
as it were.

 

[pheasant16]

GlowingBlueMist wrote:

Check out the Mediaplayer Classic Home Cinema.
It's based on the original Media Player Classic program but with many
improvements.

Here is one link to the web site hosting the software

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

With it being freeware it's worth taking it out for a test drive, or movie
as it were.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

the old piii chugs along with this just fine, even over the wireless
network!!!!

Your suggestion beats all the coffee in fixing this issue.

Thank you, thank you, thank you~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

pheasant16 wrote:

THANK YOU!!!!!!

the old piii chugs along with this just fine, even over the wireless
network!!!!

Your suggestion beats all the coffee in fixing this issue.

Thank you, thank you, thank you~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad to have been of help.

I like the program because it comes with the codec's for the formats it
supports so you don't have to waste time finding the correct ones to
download.