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poor quality video signal to the PC
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Help! I have a PC with TV-in card. I have put my VCR between the aerial and the TV in, so i can watch videos on the PC. The signal input is fine going into Winfast PVR TV software and all channels good quality. But when i play a video the actual channel which detected the video signal, is really poor quality (barely determinable). How can i get a good quality picture for when the video is in play mode please? ps although i am a developer and computer literate person, i am a TV/technology phobe so explain it to me like i'm a 6 year old. cheers
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no. sorry if i didn't describe the problem properly but that IS the problem - i am trying to watch pre-recorded videos on the PC and getting nothing (well, a very poor quality, no picture, channel). PS have checked and the video IS playing to a TV so it's not the VCR.
it's as if winfast simply cannot tune in to the VCR's frequency (and there's no way to manually fine-tune it is there?)
it's as if winfast simply cannot tune in to the VCR's frequency (and there's no way to manually fine-tune it is there?)
This is probably going to be me talking complete c*** (as I don't have, and have never had any TV input on my PC), but if you take a look at the Leadtek site http://www.leadtek.co.uk/ , there is a connection diagram (click it for an enlarged pop-up) for the PVR2000 (hope that's what you have). It seems to imply that you need to use S-video or composite video to get a signal from your VCR into the card. You may need to use phono leads for the audio with the latter (and maybe the former - never used S-Video). It may be that the card doesn't accept whatever frequency VCR's broadcast on (though that seems unlikely).
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