- Sep 1, 2002
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Hello All,
Short version. Whenever I try to have the PC view a video playing on the VHS player, all I see is snow.
The story: A bit late to the Media Center (MC) fun, but got an older Dell XPS One (Windows Vista) and gave it to my parents for recording their favorite shows. My mother mentioned having old family videos they would like to have on DVD. Since the Dell has a TV tuner, I did some experimenting with this.
I plugged the Coax cable from the VCR output to the Tuner card. I pulled up the channel on MC, and all I get is snow. So I looked around and tried http://www.virtualdub.org/. I selected the tuner card, and all I get is snow, EXCEPT when I am first plugging the cable into the VCR. I see the video for a split second. So I plugged the VCR into another TV, and the same video plays perfectly fine. The cable I used plays TV through MC perfectly fine.
So I am not quite sure what the problem is. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Short version. Whenever I try to have the PC view a video playing on the VHS player, all I see is snow.
The story: A bit late to the Media Center (MC) fun, but got an older Dell XPS One (Windows Vista) and gave it to my parents for recording their favorite shows. My mother mentioned having old family videos they would like to have on DVD. Since the Dell has a TV tuner, I did some experimenting with this.
I plugged the Coax cable from the VCR output to the Tuner card. I pulled up the channel on MC, and all I get is snow. So I looked around and tried http://www.virtualdub.org/. I selected the tuner card, and all I get is snow, EXCEPT when I am first plugging the cable into the VCR. I see the video for a split second. So I plugged the VCR into another TV, and the same video plays perfectly fine. The cable I used plays TV through MC perfectly fine.
So I am not quite sure what the problem is. Does anyone have any suggestions?