Topic: Connecting To A Laptop (Read 150 times)

ButtersB · « **Reply #15 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:08:00 PM »

I believe any kind of USB TV-Card will do the job nicely, such as http://www.hauppage....s/data_usb.html

Just use whatever inputs are on the USB breakout box (S-Video, composite, or antenna probably).

ButtersB

poe zah · « **Reply #16 on:** July 21, 2004, 05:14:00 PM »

thats what i was lookin for. thank you

skilletguy83 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 21, 2004, 11:49:00 AM »

Mr Ed · « **Reply #18 on:** August 21, 2004, 12:15:00 PM »

If it has S-Video in, you are set.

Mr Ed · « **Reply #19 on:** August 22, 2004, 09:46:00 PM »

Mr Ed · « **Reply #20 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:13:00 AM »

TheKraken · « **Reply #21 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:51:00 AM »

skilletguy83 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 23, 2004, 12:17:00 PM »

True, true...but my laptop is a media center PC and comes w/XP Media Center Edition. we'll see......

Mr Ed · « **Reply #23 on:** August 24, 2004, 09:06:00 PM »

Well your laptop doesn't have any video input.

You could look for a video capture card. You could try USB but you'd probably have better luck with PCMCIA. But remember there's a lot of encoding with those methods, so there will probably always be some lag on the screen. You'll also see additional pixillation as your video stream is converted to MPEG2 (or DV depending on the hardware) on the fly. Actually if your laptop has FireWire (IEEE1394) you could connect via a miniDV Camcorder if your camcorder supports FireWire passthrough.

Mr Ed · « **Reply #24 on:** August 26, 2004, 10:59:00 AM »

Well, I haven't done this on Windows, but theoretically, you would connect your XBOX via S-Video/RCA jacks to your camcorder. Your camcorder would connect to your computer via FireWire. Set the camcorder to VCR mode, and it should want to record/monitor the video input now instead of the lens. Then with whatever software you use on Windows to aquire/monitor video across FireWire, you should be able to view the video coming across the FireWire port.

dem0n2001 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 26, 2004, 11:40:00 AM »

well i sort or tried it before i left for work.. i plugged in my canon elura 10 and winpro gave me a choice of software of windows movie maker and dv gate ... didnt get a chance to mess with it fully... but i have one of those vga video boxes but looking on line a vga port on a laptop can only be used as a output not an input ...is this correct..i really wanna use my laptop lcd to play games too..

phire · « **Reply #26 on:** August 26, 2004, 11:41:00 AM »

a media center pc will definately have inputs.. dont buy an rf adapter just to use the coax inputs, use the composite, or if it has svideo.. use that

Mr Ed · « **Reply #27 on:** August 26, 2004, 02:46:00 PM »

friday13th · « **Reply #28 on:** August 27, 2004, 05:19:00 AM »

Lol, i actually just this second signed up to the forum to ask the same question.

Taking a laptop to uni, and want xbox too

all seems to complicated to bother

poiygon · « **Reply #29 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:27:00 AM »

The only way you're going to be able to view your XBox on your notebook's LCD is by using some form of Video Capture (ie: external capture card, camcorder with usb 2.0/firewire). How well a Video Capture device works depends on many things. However it all comes down to how fast your machine is. If you have a 2.8GHz processor with 512MB of RAM, you're probably safe with buying just a S-Video to USB 2.0 cable. If you have a 1.0GHz with 256MB of RAM, you'll probably want to get a full capture device that does it's own encoding. Either one will not guarrantee that you'll have a smooth picture all the time.

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