Winfast 2000 XP input jack is a PS/2?

[jabberdau]

Hello everyone. Not sure if this is the right catagory to post this anyway:

I bought a winfast 2000 XP Deluxe capture card recently, used, very cheap, but only the card. No cables. So when I get to the point when I am about to connect my VCR to it with a S-VHS cable, I notice that it dosnt have a S-VHS input. Instead it uses a PS/2 jack normally to use with keyboards. (look here) and here

I suppose it comes originally with some kind of special cable. The question now is, can I make such a cable myself? Can I buy one, and if so whats it called? One that goes from s-vhs to ps/2.

[Nelson37]

It's gonna be some proprietary dongle like the ones most ATI cards use. You will need to find one that matches that card.

[redwudz]

Here's the pinout: http://pinouts.ru/Video/leadtek_tvout_pinout.shtml
And a PS-2 mouse pinout: http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/PS2Mouse_pinout.shtml

It's a type of six pin mini-din connector. The problem is that a mouse or a keyboard doesn't use two of the pins, so an old mouse cable won't work as a rewired adapter. And most mouse/keyboard connectors are molded, so you don't have access to the actual pins.

And just to make it more complicated, a ATI S-Video adapter uses 8 pins and it won't fit into a PS-2 connector, even if you remove the extra pins. http://pinouts.ru/VideoCables/ati_vidinput_pinout.shtml

[jabberdau]

If I explained all this to an expert, could he make me a cable do you think?
It is possible, but complicated?

The manual for the card does show a combination cable

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1695/winfast2000cable.jpg

[winifreid]

Doesn't your VCR have RCA outputs? Or cable? I have that crd and just connect my VCR with the cable output. SInce you will be converting the S-video out to RCA, I don't think you will see any quality improvement using the S-video.

[jabberdau]

I think so its a Panasonic AG-1980P (not at home atm) but are you saying that, I cant get the advantage of improved quality by using the S-vhs connection since the signal gets converted anyway?
I was of the impression that this card could record in uncompressed avi using a s-vhs connection. Maybe I should find another card entirely?

[jabberdau]

This is frustrating. So I thought I could maybe get a cable if I bought an entirely new card, only noone apparently SELLS Leadtek capture cards, neither in europe or in USA or Japan or anywhere else for that matter. Not online at least.
Does anyone know who actually sells tv 2000 xp cards, as in retail not bulk?

Option 2: Buy a Hauppauge card and forget about avi editing and convert directly to mpeg2. I am starting to like this option. The problem with this is that the only version of the 150 card with both an s-vhs jack and left and right audio inputs is the MCE version which noone apparently have in stock anymore. ARRRGH, why is this so hard? Is there something obvious that I am missing here?

[d.casper.b]

I have the TV2000 XP Expert (I did have a Deluxe before though). They're decent analogue cards - the best for my needs anyhow. I'm not sure about the cable - it should have been included when you got the card..so not sure where you can get a loose one. It has all your other inputs on the end (S-VHS/S-Video, composite and audio left/right).

I've used a mpeg2 hardware encoding type card (ATI theater 550) and I was very unhappy - struggled with avi captures.

My Leadtek card is perfect - I use VirtualDub for all captures, using HuffYuv or Mjpeg, with no problems.

If you can find one, I would recommend it for you - I have no knowledge of Hauppage cards whatsoever.