No sound and no picture problem

[aussie8964]

Hi just a few problems I am having.
First is that I have a pinnacle pctv tuner card and I am trying to play a vhs video on the pc, I can get sound but no picture.

Second is that I have got a few movies on the hard drive and have been playing the ts file in windows media player, I can get the picture but no
sound.

I am running windows xp home edition.
Pentium 4 3.06ghz
768mb ram
240gb hdd
64mb nvidia video card

I have no codecs installed and not sure if I need any to make my problems go away and if I do what codecs do I need.

[aussie8964]

Ok I have downloaded the 3divx codec and now I get picture when playing
a video on the pc.
But I still dont get any sound when playing a movie in windows media player.
The movie is one I backed up using dvdshrink, and I doubleclick on the tsfile to play in WMP. It plays the movie fine, I get picture but no sound.

[yoda313]

Hello,
Have you tried ac3filter?? That might help a bit. Are they encoded in 5.1? You might need a dolby digital plug in for windows media player.
Kevin
P.S. As you found out you need SOME kind of codec installed to play any audio/video file. They are what the computer needs to READ the file.
Kevin

[thecoalman]

First is that I have a pinnacle pctv tuner card and I am trying to play a vhs video on the pc, I can get sound but no picture.

Most likley you haven't selected which input you are using. You need to select between tuner/composite/s-video (or whatever inputs there are) in the capture card configuration.

Second is that I have got a few movies on the hard drive and have been playing the ts file in windows media player, I can get the picture but no
sound.

I dunno, try playing it with another player like powerDVD. If the files are DVD compliant which they should be, you should have sound.

I have no codecs installed and not sure if I need any to make my problems go away and if I do what codecs do I need.

You do unless you uninstalled them, the need to install a codec is rare. This will occur when you get a movie that was created by someone else using a specific codec. The player should give you an error stating that it can't find the codec. Look in the tools section, there's aps for determining what codec is used for a file and the most common codecs. Some codecs are propietary and have to be purchased.

[yoda313]

Hello,

thecoalman-Most likley you haven't selected which input you are using. You need to select between tuner/composite/s-video (or whatever inputs there are) in the capture card configuration.

Good point. I'd like to add one thing to that. I use the wintv pvr250 and it only has a svideo input jack. It comes with a rca-svideo adapter. In order to get the picture I need to select svideo+composite combo option (ie they're listed together on the same line in the menu). This might be part of your problem.
Kevin