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How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

ajk11111111 (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 10th July 2000, 11:24

hi
i have a dvd player in my pc which is multi region and i wonderd how i could watch it on my tv?
any help would be great.

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

Mark Fountain (Super Admin) posted this on Monday, 10th July 2000, 11:48

You will probably need one of the hardware decoder cards fitted that allows the composite and SVideo signals to be routed to a TV/projector. Also the Dolby Digital feed is available also.

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

Leo Davidson (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 11th July 2000, 14:58

Or just a video card with TV-out.
I know with the NVidia TNT2 you have to go to 800*600 or 640*480 to allow TV-out to be enabled.

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

ajk11111111 (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 11th July 2000, 17:08

cheers i believe i have one i just need to know what kind of cable i should use to connect the two
ive heard its like a scart lead but i dont know?

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

Leo Davidson (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Wednesday, 12th July 2000, 15:49

My TNT2Ultra came with a cable which plugs in the back of the card and I think outputs s-video, which you could convert to scart if your TV doesn`t have an s-video connector.

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

ajk11111111 (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Wednesday, 12th July 2000, 16:54

i only have one socket which says av out and it is yellow and looks like a phono socket, if that helps and i need to know where to get a cable from?

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

Leo Davidson (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 13th July 2000, 14:31

Hmm, strange that the card didn`t come with one. Where do you live? I can`t say that I`ve ever used my cable or ever see myself using it, so I`d be willing to give it to ya if it`s something you`d find useful.

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

ajk11111111 (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 13th July 2000, 22:00

cheers the only problem is that it is not s video just one phono socket to whatever ,but anyway i live in bolsover deryshire

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

Leo Davidson (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 17th July 2000, 14:19

Ah, well, if there is just a phono socket on the back of your graphics card you should be able to buy a normal SCART to S-video cable. The one with three phono sockets, one for video (which you`d plug in to the graphics card) and two for stereo sound (which you`d plug in to your soundcard or just ignore).

RE: How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

ajk11111111 (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Wednesday, 19th July 2000, 16:01

i bought a 3phono to scart and connected it up an nothing happened so do i need to activate something?
or can i just not do it full stop?

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