Hi Guys My First post my first Thread so take it easy on me. Imafter a video recorder or a DVD recorder i.e. for TV's but i want to plug my computer into it to record clan matches and tutorial files. i would much prefer a DVD-r but im not wanting to spend a lot of money i was just wondering if any one knew of one as dixons and other stores aint that helpful at all.
How much do you want to spend? What kind of TV out does your graphics card have? Composite (yellow phono connection) or S-Video (looks a bit like a PS2 keyboard connector)? If it has either component or s-video then it shouldn't be too hard to find a suitable recorder. if they dont have those conections on the back then they can normally do it through scart via an adapter, but check with the salesman as the scart socket needs to be wired to do this. i.e. if you plug s-video into a standard scart it will be in black and white.
My Card has VGA, S-video and Dvi which i have the converter to make it dvi to vga, i would be looking around upto £100 to spend but im thinking of selling my telly as i dont need it i would prefer a dvd-r now thinking about it because if i do get ride of my telly in my bedroom i can use my pc to play it back and rip of the disk and edit it if i needed to. cheers
You're best off using the S-video output of the video card, as I don't think many DVDRs will have a VGA or DVI in. If your card allows for a dongle with component (Y/Cr/Cb) out, that would be even better, but not a whole lot do.
You can get cables that are VGA - Component. I saw one the other day. Dunno how much they cost, or if it'll even work, but I think that's your best bet. _C
i did have this mad think for a S-video that then turned into an AV cable and had a scart adapter and had that running to my tv before but the colour was naf and quility
Most DVD writers will have - Scart Input - Plug input (yellow/white/red) - S-Video input - Digital audio input - Coaxial input Some cheaper models won't have all of these, but at least some. So get one that has SVIDEO. Then simply get a SVIDEO-SVIDEO cable to from video card to dvd writer. And a audio cable to from 3.5mm headphone jack to white/red plugs. (or if your computer has optical audio, and the dvd writer has too, get that). Should work just fine! Good luck L PS: Avoid the vga-video thingies.. I don't believe they work that well.
what game is it? there are screen capture tools and then some games have the recording built in (half life/counter strike/whatever)