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Hi,
I'm a student living away from home at the moment and I've only got my computer for entertainment. I've been watching DVDs on it a lot but my small collection of DVDs get boring after watching each one for the twentieth time and purchasing a new DVD every couple of days is pretty expensive. I was wondering if anyone knows if I can connect a standard VCR to my computer through my graphics card. I know you can with a TV Tuner Card but I don't really want to fork out on one of those if I can connect it through my graphics card anyway. My graphics card is a Radeon 64MB DDR which has composite input, will this do the job? I don't want to output to the VCR, I want to watch videos through my PC Monitor.
Cheers
I'm a student living away from home at the moment and I've only got my computer for entertainment. I've been watching DVDs on it a lot but my small collection of DVDs get boring after watching each one for the twentieth time and purchasing a new DVD every couple of days is pretty expensive. I was wondering if anyone knows if I can connect a standard VCR to my computer through my graphics card. I know you can with a TV Tuner Card but I don't really want to fork out on one of those if I can connect it through my graphics card anyway. My graphics card is a Radeon 64MB DDR which has composite input, will this do the job? I don't want to output to the VCR, I want to watch videos through my PC Monitor.
Cheers
You will not be able to do this on most vid cards, i know a lot of them have video and svideo out but i don't know of many (unless specifically states)that have an input the old voodoo 3 3500 tv had a little pod that was able to use input and output but quality was crap, why don't you just get yourself a wintv card they are pretty good quality and only about £40.
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I don't really know for sure, I'm just guessing.
But if your Graphics Card has an "Input" connection for anything, (S-VHS, Composite Input, whatever), then if you have the right lead then you can plug it in no problem :o).
However, not sure if you can watch a Video back on your computer unless you have some sort of software which can read and display it for you, and I'm not sure where such software can be obtained, sorry.
But you can plug it in and press play, see if your DVD software will accept it, though I wouldn't hold my breath for it to work.
But if your Graphics Card has an "Input" connection for anything, (S-VHS, Composite Input, whatever), then if you have the right lead then you can plug it in no problem :o).
However, not sure if you can watch a Video back on your computer unless you have some sort of software which can read and display it for you, and I'm not sure where such software can be obtained, sorry.
But you can plug it in and press play, see if your DVD software will accept it, though I wouldn't hold my breath for it to work.
Hi,
I'm a student living away from home at the moment and I've only got my computer for entertainment. I've been watching DVDs on it a lot but my small collection of DVDs get boring after watching each one for the twentieth time and purchasing a new DVD every couple of days is pretty expensive. I was wondering if anyone knows if I can connect a standard VCR to my computer through my graphics card. I know you can with a TV Tuner Card but I don't really want to fork out on one of those if I can connect it through my graphics card anyway. My graphics card is a Radeon 64MB DDR which has composite input, will this do the job? I don't want to output to the VCR, I want to watch videos through my PC Monitor.
Cheers
I'm a student living away from home at the moment and I've only got my computer for entertainment. I've been watching DVDs on it a lot but my small collection of DVDs get boring after watching each one for the twentieth time and purchasing a new DVD every couple of days is pretty expensive. I was wondering if anyone knows if I can connect a standard VCR to my computer through my graphics card. I know you can with a TV Tuner Card but I don't really want to fork out on one of those if I can connect it through my graphics card anyway. My graphics card is a Radeon 64MB DDR which has composite input, will this do the job? I don't want to output to the VCR, I want to watch videos through my PC Monitor.
Cheers