TV Wonder Ve

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I am trying to activate or find how to activate the video capture function
of this card. I cannot find where to plug in my video camera. My camera is
an older Canon Hi8 and the output goes from the camera to there plugs, red,
white and yellow. Do I need some kind of adapter where these three would
plug into something and then there would be one line out that I would plug
into the video cards input ?

Thanks for any help.

TK
 
TKHawaii said:
I am trying to activate or find how to activate the video capture function
of this card. I cannot find where to plug in my video camera. My camera is
an older Canon Hi8 and the output goes from the camera to there plugs, red,
white and yellow. Do I need some kind of adapter where these three would
plug into something and then there would be one line out that I would plug
into the video cards input ?
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The cables you describe make up a "composite video" connection. The
yellow one is the composite baseband video signal. Red is right
channel audio, white is left channel audio.

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure a TV Wonder VE can do video capture
form an external composite source, at least not directly.

The only jacks on my TV Wonder VE are the RF input for the antenna and
a stereo 1/8" output plug for the audio to connect to the sound card's
input. Assuming you have only these jacks on your card, the only way
you could do video capture with that is to run your camera through an
RF modulator, hook the coax output of hte RF modulator to the card,
and tune the TV card to channel 3, and press the little camera icon to
start recording.

The quality won't be as good as it could be (due to NTSC RF format
being a lot crappier than the composite video you'll start with), but
it is a cheap solution reusing stuff you already have. RF modulators
can be had on the cheap from best buy and radio shack.

Here's an RF modulator for just $16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16882125059

The red/yellow/white cables plug into it, and it gives you a coax
output. Reuse a co-ax cable you have in the house to hook this to
your TV wonder VE, tune the ATI TV to channel 3, and have fun.

Best Regards,
 
The yellow plug is composite video and plugs into the yellow jack on
the TV Wonder card. The red and white plugs are right and left audio.
My 2 year old TV Wonder VE came with an adapter with a male mini plug
to plug into the sound cards and 2 female rca connectors for the
cables.
 
I got the capture feature to work by just using the yellow plug from my
camera. You mentioned the red and white are audio. I took was supplied with
an adapter that has plugs for red and white cables. But where does this plug
into the card ? There are only three inputs: Comp IN, CATV and AUD Out ?

Thanks
 
The adapter plugs directly into the audio input on the sound card. If you
don't capture audio on your camcorder you don't have to plug in the audio.

If you capture audio on your camcorder and also from a RF cable tv signal
than you'll have to unplug the adapter from the sound card and plug the
audio out from the TV Wonder VE to audio input on your sound card when you
capture TV.
 
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