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Watching video on Laptops

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2002-04-10 08:01 in General Discussion
This is not directly Stamps, but...

In my project I have to watch a for an optical event with video camera (RCA
video output) on my laptop screen. If that would have been a "normal"
computer - there would be no problem putting in a video or TV card with a
RCA (Video-in) input and I would have been done.
I found a X10 Video-to-USB cable that allows to do that, and some older,
used PCMCIA cards that suppose to do the same. Are there any new Video-in
PCMCIA cards?

X10 cable is about $70 and Belkin makes a similar one. There is also TV
cards with USB connection.
Am I missing something ar these are my only choices? Anyone knows about any
new Video-in PCMCIA solutions? I am using older touch-screen laptops that
has no USB!

Thanks for your help,

Alex Chaihorsky

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-09 15:36
    I use the iRez CapSURE Card:
    http://www.irez.com

    -Chilton

    On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 04:16 AM, Alex Chaihorsky wrote:

    > X10 cable is about $70 and Belkin makes a similar one. There is also TV
    > cards with USB connection.
    > Am I missing something ar these are my only choices? Anyone knows about
    > any
    > new Video-in PCMCIA solutions? I am using older touch-screen laptops
    > that
    > has no USB!
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-09 17:13
    You might be better off getting a firewire PCMCIA card and a firewire
    camera. Almost all the video capture solutions today are PCI card, USB, or
    firewire.. Not too many others out there.

    Plus if you get the firewire card you have a bunch of devices you can use.
    I guess you could also try to find a USB PCMCIA card, that would allow you
    to use the USB cameras/video capture solutions.

    -Rob
    Original Message
    From: "Alex Chaihorsky" <alex_chaihorsky@h...>
    To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:16 AM
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Watching video on Laptops


    > This is not directly Stamps, but...
    >
    > In my project I have to watch a for an optical event with video camera
    (RCA
    > video output) on my laptop screen. If that would have been a "normal"
    > computer - there would be no problem putting in a video or TV card with a
    > RCA (Video-in) input and I would have been done.
    > I found a X10 Video-to-USB cable that allows to do that, and some older,
    > used PCMCIA cards that suppose to do the same. Are there any new Video-in
    > PCMCIA cards?
    >
    > X10 cable is about $70 and Belkin makes a similar one. There is also TV
    > cards with USB connection.
    > Am I missing something ar these are my only choices? Anyone knows about
    any
    > new Video-in PCMCIA solutions? I am using older touch-screen laptops that
    > has no USB!
    >
    > Thanks for your help,
    >
    > Alex Chaihorsky
    >
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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-09 19:49
    Hi,
    Try this http://www.margi.com/products/default.html . I bought the "TV
    to GO", NTSC & PAL supported. I can now use any Video input in to my
    ageing Tosh Satellite Pro (computer must have a ZV supported PCMCIA
    port).

    Rob


    ---Original Message
    From: Alex Chaihorsky [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=sORBnqymY6K-HHBtwO-MXHroDSpTHb75dmv4qUN6BEHXyeS-zp3Pfdup8PlBiJpLZzYgruNOGTR9ZIK90_uIL26yG41Wdw]alex_chaihorsky@h...[/url
    Sent: 09 April 2002 10:16
    To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Watching video on Laptops

    This is not directly Stamps, but...

    In my project I have to watch a for an optical event with video camera
    (RCA
    video output) on my laptop screen. If that would have been a "normal"
    computer - there would be no problem putting in a video or TV card with
    a
    RCA (Video-in) input and I would have been done.
    I found a X10 Video-to-USB cable that allows to do that, and some older,
    used PCMCIA cards that suppose to do the same. Are there any new
    Video-in
    PCMCIA cards?

    X10 cable is about $70 and Belkin makes a similar one. There is also TV
    cards with USB connection.
    Am I missing something ar these are my only choices? Anyone knows about
    any
    new Video-in PCMCIA solutions? I am using older touch-screen laptops
    that
    has no USB!

    Thanks for your help,

    Alex Chaihorsky

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-09 23:51
    Be careful when using older laptops and newer
    PCMCIA/PCCard interfaces. I have an older Toshiba
    Tecra running Windows 98 which has 16-bit PCMCIA
    slots. These will not support some of the newer cards
    (ie., USB PCCard is not supported as it is a 32-bit
    interface). You may find this true with a video
    capture or TV PCCard.

    Kevin K Asato
    KC6POB

    --- Alex Chaihorsky <alex_chaihorsky@h...>
    wrote:
    > This is not directly Stamps, but...
    >
    > In my project I have to watch a for an optical event
    > with video camera (RCA
    > video output) on my laptop screen. If that would
    > have been a "normal"
    > computer - there would be no problem putting in a
    > video or TV card with a
    > RCA (Video-in) input and I would have been done.
    > I found a X10 Video-to-USB cable that allows to do
    > that, and some older,
    > used PCMCIA cards that suppose to do the same. Are
    > there any new Video-in
    > PCMCIA cards?
    >
    > X10 cable is about $70 and Belkin makes a similar
    > one. There is also TV
    > cards with USB connection.
    > Am I missing something ar these are my only choices?
    > Anyone knows about any
    > new Video-in PCMCIA solutions? I am using older
    > touch-screen laptops that
    > has no USB!
    >
    > Thanks for your help,
    >
    > Alex Chaihorsky
    >
    > To UNSUBSCRIBE, just send mail to:
    > basicstamps-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
    > from the same email address that you subscribed.
    > Text in the Subject and Body of the message will be
    > ignored.
    >
    >
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    >
    >


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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-10 01:14
    Charles E. Fromage says:


    The "new" cards are Cardbus -- fortunately they have little titties on the
    edge of the card that prevent you from plugging them into a slot designed
    for the older PCMCIA cards. You can run an old card in a new machine, but
    not vice-versa.
    Original Message

    > Be careful when using older laptops and newer
    > PCMCIA/PCCard interfaces. I have an older Toshiba
    > Tecra running Windows 98 which has 16-bit PCMCIA
    > slots. These will not support some of the newer cards
    > (ie., USB PCCard is not supported as it is a 32-bit
    > interface). You may find this true with a video
    > capture or TV PCCard.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-10 08:01
    Not to get into a pissing match about who is right but
    this interface card went right in with normal effort.
    There was a bit of trouble getting this card
    recognized by the OS and erratic driver operation.
    Only after experiencing these problems was I able to
    find the notation in the manual describing the 16-bit
    nature of the port.

    --- Rodent <daweasel@s...> wrote:
    >
    > Charles E. Fromage says:
    >
    >
    > The "new" cards are Cardbus -- fortunately they have
    > little titties on the
    > edge of the card that prevent you from plugging them
    > into a slot designed
    > for the older PCMCIA cards. You can run an old card
    > in a new machine, but
    > not vice-versa.
    >
    >
    Original Message
    >
    > > Be careful when using older laptops and newer
    > > PCMCIA/PCCard interfaces. I have an older Toshiba
    > > Tecra running Windows 98 which has 16-bit PCMCIA
    > > slots. These will not support some of the newer
    > cards
    > > (ie., USB PCCard is not supported as it is a
    > 32-bit
    > > interface). You may find this true with a video
    > > capture or TV PCCard.
    >
    >
    >
    >
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