Cinemaster C 3.0 Video Out

[thomas2000]

I have a Dell XPS T600, the computer came with the Cinemaster 3.0 mpeg card (Ravisent). I am having problems with the Video out. When I hook it up to my TV I just get a "test Screen" with different colors. I am using the Composite (coax) cable since my TV does not support the S-video (just get black/white "testscreen&quot. Does anyone has any idea what might be causing this? I am on W2K and I have all the latest drivers for the Cinemaster card installed.

Regards,
Thomas

[MistahMiz]

I have a Dell XPS T800r and i also have the Cinemaster 3.0 card you are talking about. That card is a dvd / decoder card and will NOT put your desktop on your screen. I wish I would have known that as I would have gotten something different but anway.....if you want to use this card, you need to use a dvd or vcd to get it on your screen. Use the video out (yellow) and connect it to a vcr video in if your tv doesn't have svideo connectors. Thats how I do it. Then use the audio out and bring that to your vcr as well. Then put your vcr on aux imput and voila - its on the screen. If your vcd's sometimes don't play on your tv screen but do on your computer let me know because that is the problem I am having. hope this helped!

[thomas2000]

Hi

Thanks for you reply. I figured that out too. So what I do now is that I write the files down as a VCD and run them with the Dell DVD player that came with the computer. Although! I can't seem to run the VCD's from the DVD player and go through the mpegcard, it works with the real DVD discs but not with the VCD, but If I run the VCD disc through my regular CD-rom drive it works.

I am gonna get another card..Hollywood+ maybe..think it will work better.

Cheers,
Thomas

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On 2001-08-23 00:14:27, MistahMiz wrote:
I have a Dell XPS T800r and i also have the Cinemaster 3.0 card you are talking about. That card is a dvd / decoder card and will NOT put your desktop on your screen. I wish I would have known that as I would have gotten something different but anway.....if you want to use this card, you need to use a dvd or vcd to get it on your screen. Use the video out (yellow) and connect it to a vcr video in if your tv doesn't have svideo connectors. Thats how I do it. Then use the audio out and bring that to your vcr as well. Then put your vcr on aux imput and voila - its on the screen. If your vcd's sometimes don't play on your tv screen but do on your computer let me know because that is the problem I am having. hope this helped!
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