TV to PC full screen

[Erics]

Hello,
I have a Matrox video board that enables me to feed an analog video signal
to my PC and acquire sequences from VCR, cam etc....the video acquiisition
software (ie microsoft movie maker or adobe) only display a rather small
control monitor.
Now I want to watch (NOT acquire) TV programs on my computer screen and of
course I'd prefer to see them full screen.
I haven't found a way to do that on my graphic card software (nvidia 6800GT).
ANyone has a suggestion?
Thanks
Eric

[Andrew E.]

Download WM encoder 9 series,in the encoder select:capture video/audio
The encoder lets you view in its 75% full monitor screen,if you save the
data in
a new folder,then open the encoder to convert audio/video when its thru you
can view in WMP.

"Erics" wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a Matrox video board that enables me to feed an analog video signal
> to my PC and acquire sequences from VCR, cam etc....the video acquiisition
> software (ie microsoft movie maker or adobe) only display a rather small
> control monitor.
> Now I want to watch (NOT acquire) TV programs on my computer screen and of
> course I'd prefer to see them full screen.
> I haven't found a way to do that on my graphic card software (nvidia 6800GT).
> ANyone has a suggestion?
> Thanks
> Eric
>

[bxf]

Erics wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Matrox video board that enables me to feed an analog video signal
> to my PC and acquire sequences from VCR, cam etc....the video acquiisition
> software (ie microsoft movie maker or adobe) only display a rather small
> control monitor.
> Now I want to watch (NOT acquire) TV programs on my computer screen and of
> course I'd prefer to see them full screen.
> I haven't found a way to do that on my graphic card software (nvidia 6800GT).
> ANyone has a suggestion?
> Thanks
> Eri

Try VirtualDub (free from SOURCEFORGE). It has a CAPTURE AVI function,
which enables you to VIEW without writing to your disk, in Maximized
(almost fullscreen) mode. I suppose you'd have to try it to see whether
or not it accepts the files produced by your hardware.

[Erics]

Interesting tool, thanks for pointing it out. And it works!
However, the input display preview seems to be limited to 554x514 or is it
me (that is "limited")?
Eric

"Andrew E." a écrit :

> Download WM encoder 9 series,in the encoder select:capture video/audio
> The encoder lets you view in its 75% full monitor screen,if you save the
> data in
> a new folder,then open the encoder to convert audio/video when its thru you
> can view in WMP.
>
> "Erics" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I have a Matrox video board that enables me to feed an analog video signal
> > to my PC and acquire sequences from VCR, cam etc....the video acquiisition
> > software (ie microsoft movie maker or adobe) only display a rather small
> > control monitor.
> > Now I want to watch (NOT acquire) TV programs on my computer screen and of
> > course I'd prefer to see them full screen.
> > I haven't found a way to do that on my graphic card software (nvidia 6800GT).
> > ANyone has a suggestion?
> > Thanks
> > Eric
> >

[Erics]

Virtual Dub works fine too! Thanks.
the "french" list also pointed out the freeeware VLC

Do all these utilities use the same basic encoding/display functions (is
microsoft encoder) or have they developped their own?
Do they have the same level of resolution?

Anyhow thnaks for the help!


"bxf" a écrit :

>
> Erics wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a Matrox video board that enables me to feed an analog video signal
> > to my PC and acquire sequences from VCR, cam etc....the video acquiisition
> > software (ie microsoft movie maker or adobe) only display a rather small
> > control monitor.
> > Now I want to watch (NOT acquire) TV programs on my computer screen and of
> > course I'd prefer to see them full screen.
> > I haven't found a way to do that on my graphic card software (nvidia 6800GT).
> > ANyone has a suggestion?
> > Thanks
> > Eri
>
> Try VirtualDub (free from SOURCEFORGE). It has a CAPTURE AVI function,
> which enables you to VIEW without writing to your disk, in Maximized
> (almost fullscreen) mode. I suppose you'd have to try it to see whether
> or not it accepts the files produced by your hardware.
>
>

[bxf]

Erics wrote:
> Virtual Dub works fine too! Thanks.
> the "french" list also pointed out the freeeware VLC

I have not had much luck using VLC's capture facilities, but that can
vary according too hardware.

> Do all these utilities use the same basic encoding/display functions (is
> microsoft encoder) or have they developped their own?
> Do they have the same level of resolution?

I believe (but I'm not certain) that VLC, VirtualDub, FFDshow, "borrow"
some components from a common source which was developed under the same
free licensing scheme that these products are available under. I don't
believe that what they use is considered to have come from Microsoft,
if that's your question.