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PC-DVD playback on TV

starman100 · 2002-03-28 11:42:30

What is the easiest way to connect the TV-out from my graphics card on my PC to play back DVD movies on the TV downstairs? Ideally, I would like to be able to control the DVD player with a remote control. I have come across the following device from the US which would be ideal: http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk53a.htm…

28-03-2002 12:42pm

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starman100

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What is the easiest way to connect the TV-out
from my graphics card on my PC to play back DVD movies
on the TV downstairs?

Ideally, I would like to be able to control the DVD player
with a remote control.

I have come across the following device from the US which
would be ideal:

http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk53a.htm

Anyone had any experience using this device or similar?

Alternatively, is the only other way to hardwire a cable direct
from the TV-out to the TV and have to fiddle with the PC
controls directly?

:cool: :cool: :cool:

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#2 28-03-2002 7:24pm

noog

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That peice of kit looks pretty nifty... At the moment im using a creative encore 12x DVD-ROM with a creative drx3 hardware encoding card with extended resolution. it connects to my TV screen using an s-video lead. If your TV doesn't have s-video in, you can purchase a little cube socket yoke that fits s-video into a SCART lead on your television. As for the wireless DVD broadcasting, i haven't heard much about it, but i presume you'll still need to provide the tv-out facilities from your computer, if you haven't already got tv-out , i reccomend the creative dvd encore packages.

- noog

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#3 28-03-2002 7:44pm

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Using same as Super Noodle - can recommend it

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#4 28-03-2002 8:48pm

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I have the Creative DXR3 kit and I've never got it to sucesfully output to a telly. Is there some software to be used?

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#5 28-03-2002 8:58pm

Boston

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42142&highlight=decoder

basicaly the same set up, for about 15 euro all together

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#6 28-03-2002 9:10pm

noog

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Robbo: Assuming you have your hardware setup correctly as mentioned in the thread that Boston mentioned...

Software wise you have few options:

If you run 95/98/Me/NT/2K then i suggest you just use the PC-DVD software which was bundled with your player (if it wasn't , you can find it on the creative site)

If you're running Windows XP , then you'll need to get the updated XP driver, and software , which in essence is the hollywood plus software with a creative logo stamped onto it (both of which are free for download on creative.com)

hope it helps

- noog

(by the way, extended resolution on a large telly playing back DVD's (or even .mpeg's) makes it look uber sweeeet. better than a lot of regular graphics cards outputs imo)

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