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TV-Out Max Resolution

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:51 pm
by Foo
I've hooked my TV-Out on my geforce 6 card to another PC's tv capture card via S-Video. I was expecting to be able to get 640*480 video but I can only get 320*240, which is very dissapointing.

Is there any way to increase the output, or is it a limit of the systems?

The capture card is a USB stick with inputs for S-video, composite and regular aerial signal. It does digital and analog on the TV side of things.

I'm currently using the Cinergy Analogue program that came with it. Perhaps another program would let me capture higher resolution?

I want the hookup so I can stream game video straight off the machine without needing to capture locally...

BTW I'm outputting PAL I and the input is set to expect PAL I as well.

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:58 pm
by bitWISE
Hm, I dunno man.

I do know that I've hooked my PC up to several TVs using several methods (RCA, S-Video, RGB) and it always set my resolution to 800x600. I don't know if NTSC has anything to do with that or not though.

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:07 pm
by 4days

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:08 pm
by Foo
Aye. In true tradition, it's pissed down the hardest we've seen for weeks here, too.

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:45 pm
by Foo
Hmm I guess I'm a bit stuck on this. The full explaination is as follows:

I have 2 PCs up and running right now. My regular Gaming/General PC and an old one XP2000+ box I got off my ass and made work again.

I would like to be able to record video and sound output from my main PC onto the second PC, since typically I can't capture live gaming action without fucking up the PC's speed or recording demos to play back later (and only a few of the games I play will do that). Hence, having a second box to take in the video/audio from the PC and make video files would be perfect.

I really don't know how to do it though. On the main box I have twin DVI/VGA outputs (convertable) and a single TV output (not S-Video.. one of those ones with a 3-4-2 pin arrangement).

On the old PC I have this USB TV card which comes with an extra dongle for S-Video and Composite input. I've tried hooking both types up to the TV output on the main PC (I've got a convertor cable that came with an old graphics card) but the max I can get out of it is a corrupted, grainy and laggy 320*240 image.

Fucking sucks, frankly.

Can anyone suggest a way of getting quality video/audio across this? Failing that, can anyone suggest a product that would do what I need?

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:34 pm
by bitWISE
Brand/Model of the output card and the input device?

This would be an awesome solution but it's probably pretty expensive:
http://www.iviewdata.com/html/visionrgb.html

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:58 pm
by Foo
bitWISE wrote:Brand/Model of the output card and the input device?

This would be an awesome solution but it's probably pretty expensive:
http://www.iviewdata.com/html/visionrgb.html
Output is an xfx 6600 512Mb
Input is a terratec cinergy digital XS USB (DVB-T)