My video has only a SCART cable, what can I do?

[flucky]

I have a Grundig TV/video combo and would like in the future to capture from video tape. There is no other output as far as I can see (except for antenna). Is there an adaptor that I can buy or am I youknowwhat? Also, I have only a PIII 600 with 512 RAM. Is this fast enough to capture at 720x480
or will I have problems with dropped frames. What about VCD size? Any info is welcome.

[donpedro]

Don't they sell arround cables that have SCART on one side and Cinch (or what is proper name for it) on the other ? I remember buying one with exchangable conectors when I was living in Europe.

[rhegedus]

You can buy scart adaptors that convert scart into video, audio (L+R) and s-video from any good electrical shop. I've got one between my VCR and PC capture card.

Regards,

Rob

[EddyH]

Just get down to your local dixons or whatever equivalent you have (or a friendly specialist hi-fi shop might actually be even better). SCART can carry a whole ton of different signals depending on setup, pretty much anything except antenna or hi-def in fact

For example from the VCR to TV, it carries composite and stereo audio either way, and I can get breakout cables for that (and for PC -> TV/VCR); DVD player to TV, the DVD's stereo outputs and SVHS going through a little scart converter block.. if it or the PC-TV card were more expensive I could get RGB too... and Sony in their infinite wierdness even send Y-Cr-Cb signals down it.
Should be easy as pie to get hold of a cable, converter block/box, whatever, that will let you put a composite (should be enough from that tv/vhs setup), svhs, rgb or whatever signal into a capture card from a SCART plug. Usually the two places you look will have run out of stock though so be prepared to look around

[Will Hay]

I have a Grundig TV/video combo and would like in the future to capture from video tape. There is no other output as far as I can see (except for antenna). Is there an adaptor that I can buy or am I youknowwhat? Also, I have only a PIII 600 with 512 RAM. Is this fast enough to capture at 720x480
or will I have problems with dropped frames. What about VCD size? Any info is welcome.

As already mentioned you need a scart adpater.
It has scart pins on one side and on the other has three composite outputs: yellow (video) and red and white (audio). It also has a little slider which you set to input or output.
Obviously if you're recording from your VCR to your PC this will need to be set to 'output'.
Tandy is your best place (are they nationwide?).
As for capture it's a little hard to say as you don't detail your system specification.
As you say you do have a low processor speed but you're also capturing to your primary hard drive, which isn't ideal.
One thing in your favour is I guess you have an Intel chipset on your motherboard, if it was VIA then more then likely expect problems.
Capturing depends significantly on your capture card too so combined with a small processor and a single hard drive you'll just have to see how you get on - it's definately worth the couple of quid from Tandy.
If you want futher assistance posting your full system spec would be a help
Will