[plug] VGA to TV encoder

[Arie Hol]

On 10 Mar 2005 at 13:32, Joel Johnson wrote:

> Arie, have never tried it myself but are you able to use the TV out port 
> under Linux that is available on many video cards? On most cards this is 
> just an RCA socket and some come with an adapter from RCA to SVideo. You 
> could then plug that directly into the Video In port on your VCR and 
> record everything that appears on screen.
> 

My video card has three outputs - standard VGA, s-video and DVI.

The only thing that gives me any extra output is the s-video port - but the picture is so hopeless -
 It needs and encoder to clean it up.

I have tried several things to get an output - but the only usable output I can get is with the old 
encoder that I already have - but it only works with Windows drivers and is getting a bit old.

I have tried sending the s-video output direct to a TV - with seriously distorted results and an 
overlaid signal from a local FM radio station !!!!.

I have tried sending the s-video output direct to a VCR - with no results.

I have even tried sending the s-video output direct to an old Commodore 64 monitor using the RF 
inputs - with no results.

Regards Arie
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