My Goal Here is to Connect my set Top Box to my TV Tuner Card Ok Let me list out my system specs first: 1)Intel Core2 6300 @ 1.86 GHZ 2)GeForce 8600GT 3)Pinnacle PCTV 110i TV Tuner 4)2 GB RAM 5)Windows XP Professional SP2 My TV Tuner Card has RF in. However my set top box has only RCA Out (The Red, White, Yellow Cable Thingy) So I bought a RF Modulator (RF Converter) to convert the RCA signal to RF and I connected the RCA Modulators RF out into my TV Tuners RF in. I scanned for new channels and got 6 of them. How ever none of the channels are clearly visible, although I can hear sound of the set top box on my PC. What am I doing wrong here?
I do have a S-Video IN and I found a Composite to S-video Converter Then to my joy of Joys it worked! and I am getting very good picture! But Alas no sound!! Any Remedies?
I did it!!! Finally I got the picture and sound Ok heres what I did: 1) As Mentioned Above, you have to get a Composite to S-video Converter (I got one with my video card) 2) Connect one end of the yellow plug of the RCA cable into the back of your set top box (into yellow of course) and the other end of the cable into the converter (as shown above) and then plug the converter in to the S-Video in of your TV Tuner Card 3) OK! Thats the Video taken care of, now you have to get an RCA Audio to 3.5mm jack cable: Connect the red and white plugs to the back of your set top box and then the 3.5 mm plug to the LINE IN of your sound card (in the above picture of a typical sound card, the line in jack is marked with the red arrow [blue port]) After doing this you have to go the settings page of your sound card and ENABLE/UNMUTE the LINE IN/INPUT MONITOR. 4) Thats it!!! You can now view your STB on your PC with great sound and video!! I would recommend the following programs to manipulate your TV Card 1) KastorTV (OpenSource, Freeware) - http://www.kastortv.org/ 2) ChrisTV Lite (Freeware, but professional version is shareware) - http://www.chris-tv.com/news.html Have a Great Day !! P.S. - Converting the RCA signal into RF(with modulator) and then plugging it in to your TV Card doesn't help, well, It doesn't for me anyway.... EDIT:No need to remind you that if your TV Card has RCA input (pictured below) then simply plug the RCA cable into your STB into your TV Card...... (Example Pictured Above is Hauppauge WinTV - PVR - 150) So make sure you buy one like this the next time you go out shopping for a TV tuner card, or you have to go through the hassles above
