Re: S VIDEO VIEWING THROUGH MY TV

dam i think i have aged twenty years since buy my new pc with mce.. i know
its potential and im trying to connect my tuner card to my home tv so i can
accsess the medis centre from there and use my monitor to surf the web.
everything is set up as previous post suggest, apart from the dam tv it wont
reconize my pc or vice verser, is there any help out there please please its
killing me ........ thanks

"darren" wrote:

thank you cbb. no disrespect to jw but yes i found it a bit confusing. its
probably me being ill educated on this subjet. any way yes cbb thats more
like my language the way you explained it. i kind of understand how to set it
up my system is set up like this .. i have an rf cable from my cable tv box
to my pc. that gives me the signal i need to watch and record live tv on my
pc..... now i also have an s video cable from my graphics card on my pc to
the s video jack on my home tv. the home tv is set to recieve s video. but
when i go start,control panel,appearence and themes,display,settings....
number 1 is my monitor but number 2 is greyed out. now my instruction manual
says i need to press the advance button after, and it will bring up a
multiple monitors dialog box? i dont have that screen? also not sure what you
mean by clone. could you shed any light on this please, thanks.......

"CBB" wrote:

Darren,
I'm afraid the way JW replied was pretty confusing.

Here's the deal, or at least the way I have my system set up.

You need to do two things to view content from the Media Center and your
computer on a TV.

You need to configure the display for two displays, which it sounds like you
know how to do.

You need to set it to "CLONE" for the type of dual monitor. This will have
the TV display the exact thing that's on your computer monitor.

Secondly, you have to have an S-Video cable connected from the S-Video jack
on your TV to the S-Video jack on the back of your graphics card on your
computer.

Those are the basics, but once you get it set up right, you'll be able to
open Media Center using your remote and control it from there to play
recorded TV, movies, etc. and have it displayed on your TV.

Of course, as you know, you have to be sure to have the input source set to
S-Video on your TV.

"darren" wrote:

thanks very much jw.. i understand completely now the penny has dropped. so
jw is it possible to play a dvd in my pc dvd drive and watch it on my home
tv. im really sorry if im fustrating you but im new to all this and im
finding it hard to get the grasp of it.. thanks again


"JW" wrote:

NO you misundertood me you can INPUT video to your PC with either the
antenna connection on your Tuner/capture card OR via theS-Video connection
and its separate audio connection. You CANNOT send S-Video output from your
tuner/capture card you must do that with your standard graphics output card
which also connects to your PC monitor
"darren" <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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thanks jw that explains it much better that the manuals. maybe its me
being
green and ill educated lol. joking aside yes my card has both rf
connection
and s video connection my understanding of this is the rf connection is to
receive the tv signal from my cale box? and the s video connection is to
stream videos from my pc to my home tv/ correct me if im wrong?. so my
question is can i send images ie dvd from my media centre to my tv. its
all
set up right i think but nothing is showing on my home tv. thanks jw for
taking the time to reply......

"JW" wrote:

The S-video connection and its associated audio connedtio on your TV
Tuner/Video capture card are for inputing into your PC from a STB instead
of
using poorer quality RF input to the antenna connection. If you want to
export S-Video from your PC your graphics card would need to have an
S-video
output connetion.
"darren" <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i am new to mce, i have set it up according to all the instructions but
im
not sure what is supposed to happen through my s video cable. i can
receive
live streaming to my pc, but i presume the s video cable should stream
my
pc
to my tv.? but nothing is happening i have checked my tv is set to s
video
input all i fine there. i read on this newsgroup that i can enable my
tv
through my display, settings. but there is nothing in there apart from
my
lcd
monitor number1. number 2 is greyed out. when i try to switch it it
also
acts
as my lcd monitor. thank you for taking the time to read this and i
would
be
very greatful if you can give me any help...thanks






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