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    HEL80 TV Connections

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by anap40, Jun 2, 2007.

  1. anap40

    anap40 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got my Sager np2080 this week from XoticPC but I can't figure out how to get the TV Tuner hooked up to my cable via coaxial.
    Here are pictures of the connections I got with the laptop. Only one of them has a coaxial end(the little metal couple) but I can't get it to fit into any other adapter. Also read the captions for the pictures.

    There's also a couple pictures of ports on there. Is the port on the back right a video out? the dongle that came with the laptop fits in both the port on the left side and in the back right.

    Thanks for your help.
     
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    anap40 Notebook Enthusiast

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    One more question for those of you with the TV Tuner. Do you know what model it is? I ask because I am looking for some software to capture video to avi(or mpeg for that matter) off on VHS tapes.
    Do you have any programs that work with this card that you would recommend?
     
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    bxf Notebook Enthusiast

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    The link you provide is not accessible, so I can't see what you're trying to show. However, my laptop came with a short (about 12cm) cable that has an RF (antenna) connection on one end, and a special plug for the laptop on the other. This plug goes into the left side of the laptop. If yours is the same, and you need to connect a coax, you'll simply have to buy or make a coax-antenna adapter.
     
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    Device Manager identifies the tuner as "FlyTV Express mini DVB-T Hybrid". I don't think I've found any references to a device with this identical name. However, I can tell you that KM Player is able to handle this tuner, though you need to know how to configure KMP for this. Also, VirtualDub, which I use successfully with another tuner, works with the HEL80 tuner, but I think I've had some hiccups, which may have been resolved with a more recent version of VDub. Although the use of either of these applications can be said to be somewhat finicky, they provide the advantage of being able to capture in XviD or DivX, for example (I haven't been totally successful with H264).

    Regardless of which application you use, and this includes the delivered one (Lifeview), you need to connect your VHS to your laptop (left side, last connection near the back), and select S-Video (I think) as your input source. Again, you can do this with the delivered application as well, but you're restricted to recording MPEGs.
     
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    Ah, forgot about that little thingo (3rd photo), which, according to the label on the plastic bag is an "NTSC Connector", but to me is a coax connector.

    So, you'd plug the adapter (3rd photo) into the gizmo shown in the 4th photo, which in turn is plugged into your laptop (right plug 6th photo) on one end and connected to your coax on the other, and voila.

    To connect your VCR, you'll need a cable that you can plug into the left plug seen in photo 6, which I take to be S-Video but perhaps it is Composite - not sure. Although the application and driver have provisions for input via S-Video and Composite (in addition to Antenna/Cable), all I can see on this laptop is one input, and you'll have to select the appropriate one as your source in whichever application you use.
     
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    Thanks, i got it all working now,(VCR and cable). Now I am just trying to find a codec to compress captured video that uses multithreading.