On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:28:23 -0600, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for fun you might pick up a really long composite cable or a couple > coaxial to rca style adapters to make one with coax easily. Unless your > going over a couple hundred foot (and maybe not then), I'd bet the > composite will still be better. It might be expensive to get a good > svideo cable thats really long though.
I'd need three coax cables that length to do it with the composite signals (L R and Video). This is accomplished with one cable, no noticable loss of picture quality > What exactly is the "large distance"? It's about 25 feet or so > Also note that you can amplify composite and svideo signals. True. But then I'd need to buy an amplifier :-P I want to make it work with what I've got for now - eventually I'll just be putting a PC next to the TV and it'll all be fine, but for now, I need a long cable so I can use my desktop. > "(and the composite ports on my cable > box are very poor quality - VERY staticy)." > > It sounds like you have a bad cable box or something.. Well you can > also get an inline combiner that takes s-video and converts it to > composite... Yeah, it's definitely a broken cablebox. I actually have two Svideo to RCA adapters, but I can't find one of them (I would need to convert it to RCA from Svideo and back to Svideo again at the input of the capture card. I did eventually get it to work - I set up the input to be tuner0, but to use the external channel program to change channels. Not sure what will happen if I reboot, though, since I think the only reason it was on channel 3 was because one of the times I got it to use the tuner, I tuned in to channel 3. Is there maybe an external program for tuning the analog tuner like there is for connecting to the external cable boxes? -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites
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