What is S Video?

[DK]

My video card has an S video port...my camera does, too. Can I caputer footage from my camera to the computer with it?

[RPGD]

Re: What is S Video?

If it's got the proper input, sure.

[DK]

Re: What is S Video?

What do you mean by that?

[RPGD]

Re: What is S Video?

Well, as far as I know, if you've got an S-Video cable to link the camera and the vid card, you can record as you would if you were using standard A/V cables.

[John Mora]

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S Video is better than composite and worse than component, does that help?

[Smurf Taco]

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Usually S Video on a camera is a way to export the video in a little better quality than the normal RCA jacks. I don't know if the one on your computer supports importing, but I should... the only other use it would have is to send video out, like to a TV screen or VCR or something.

[Big Rick Cook]

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I can't get the S-Video on my DVD player to work in conjunction with the S-Video port on my TV, and it's driving me insane.

[Smurf Taco]

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...Did you try plugging it in?
:P

[archerarmored]

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I believe that would be an out-jack. For when you use your computer on a TV screen or something of the like.

[Big Rick Cook]

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Yeah, I don't know. It says S-Video on my TV and it says S-VIdeo on my Apex DVD player. With an S-VIdeo Cable, all those things should coincide perfectly. And it doesn't work.

[Alutra]

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in terms of quality;
S video is a step higher than RCA,
a step lower than composite.

most likely that is an S video out of your computer, and if you want to hook your computer up to a TV you have to configure it in the display settings.
Start>control panel>display>settings

if this shows an image of 2 screens then your video card supports a 2 screen set up. to do this you need to have both your computer moniter and tv hooked up at the same time (through the S video) and then enable the second screen in the display settings.

if you are wanting to capture video, youll need a capture card and/or a firewire card. i just recently learned about this because i got a digital cam...

[DK]

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So I'd have to buy something like this to capture?

[Alutra]

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yes, but these video specs:

Video Format MPEG-1 Video 1152 kbps; MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio 224 kbps

arent going to land you DVD quality video. this is more like VCD quality, or maybe at best VHS ish quality. If you want DVD quality, your gonna need something that can capture MPEG-2, i believe. also keep in mind that higher quality video takes HUGE amounts of hard disk space. So if your ok with VCD quality, thats about 70 mins on a regular 700mb CD. True high quality Video is a crazy 12 gigibytes for 60 mins.

When i take my DV cam and want to dump a full 1 hour DV tape into my computer, its 12 gigs. note that a standard blank DVD is 4.7 gigs. so, how does this 1 hour of true video at 12gb get squeezed onto a 4.7gb DVD? compresson! thats right folks, DVD quality isnt the highest in existance. also i should note that it took my computer 5 hours to render (compress) the data(mine runs at about 1.5GH)so, for DVD quality you need:

A) a HUGE hard drive(if your gonna do anything important, like editing)
B) a fast prossesser( unless you dont mind not using your comp for a day)

I would like to note that I have use VCD quality alot recording some of my favorite shows, and if you can get past that pixelated look, its a great option for a "less disk space" video.

[DK]

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....VCD it is!