TV-Out Problem

[JimHimself]

I just buyed a S-VHS-to-Scart cable to watch DVD with my PC on the TV. I have a colored picture now, but there are those "up-running bars" which really annoy me. They look like those things they have when they show a PC-Monitor on TV if you know what I mean... I tried to change the resolution and the Hz-Number, but nothing worked.

Does somebody understand my problem and is able to help me???


By the way: Im able to record DVD on VHS (if I connect the cable to my VCR)...shouldnt the macrovision protection prevent this...its not that bad though ))

[JimHimself]

....oh I forgot to give you a little system information: I got a Geforce 4 MMX 460 (so "tv-tool" doesnt work on my computer...).

thx for help

[gll99]

Can't help much with your specific problem but there is another program that removes macrovision from DVD for tv-out its called DVDidle.
Do the bars appear for all movies or just the ones on DVD.

If I may ask a couple of my own questions?

I was thinking a getting a card like your or maybe the 440mx. Does your card display a true full screen on the TV with no black box around the video. Does it display in 1024x768. Except for the rolling bars is the picture pretty clearly and can you read text or is it a bit blurry?

Thanks

[ChrisX]

I have a similar video capture card with the video out. The make is Leadtek and this is also GeForce 4.

I don't use the video out and I can't find anything about microvision. There is no mention in the guide and the instructions. Nothing on their web site concerning macrovision. I only just bought the card and I will have research more on this later.

I know I can't be much of a help. Capturing a DVD movie into the hard drive wouldn't be a problem for me at all. A 2 hour movie is fine in a massive hard drive.

My video card is capable of capturing NTSC or PAL with a resolution of 720x480. It can capture from MPEG1, MPEG2 up to DVD quality video play.

Does anyone know about macrovision in the Leadtek video capturing range?

[JimHimself]

Of course the picture is a bit blurrý, but what else do you expect from a TV Monitor? But the Quality is quite good though (little bit better then VHS in my opinion), and I dont have any problems with sidebars or anything like that, the picture fits perfectly.

I run it with a 1024*768 resolution. The bars appear the whole time, not only when Im watching DVDs. I made the TV Picture a little bit darker so they are not so obvious anymore (-but still disturbing!).

May the cable length (aprox. 15m or 45 feet) be the origin of the problem???

[gll99]

If it happens with all video sources then its not macrovision because that protection is only on copy protected DVD. So we can eliminate that as the problem.

I would definitely look at that cable length. Its not coax cable right? Just regular rca plugs or svideo to rca. Unless its top of the line highly insulated video cable I wouldn't try that long a run the cost would be pretty stiff. Maybe 6 to 8 feet max. You could try moving them closer as a test and switch the video cable. Audio is not usually a problem at that length.

There are anti flickering options and the like in your display adapter settings you may want to check those also.

But it does seem like RF interference bleeding into the signal could be the culprit maybe caused by the long wire run. Keep it away from anything that generates a field even your power bar or AC/DC transformers the types of plugs used to charge cell phones, power small devices etc..