Visual/audio System Has Changed; Need Advice On Connections.

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Up until now I have been running a Foxtel iQ via s-video to a capture card (HDTV card with s-video input) on my computer viewed with a program called Dscaler, viewing on a 21" CRT and had audio with optical connected directly to the 5.1 sound system - as was the computer.

I've struck it lucky and scored myself a free Panasonic 80cm TV with Monitor Out, AV1 in, and AV2 in - RCA. There is also an s-video connector above the AV1 in connectors.

At the moment I don't have it all going and need advice on how to proceed with this.

The sound should be ok as I can connect the Foxtel box with optical, Digital box with optical, and PC with coaxial sound, but as far as video goes i'm not sure.

If I connect my SCART to video out cable to AV2 in yellow socket, I get SD. If I unplug it and connect my Foxtel with s-video to AV1, I get Foxtel. If I connect them both, I cannot view both by changing the AV mode on the TV remote. Only the Foxtel will show.

The SD Box has a passthrough for antenna, could this help? The SD Box has composite and SCART (which means I can do SCART->s-video) outputs. The iQ box has s-video, the computer also has s-video.

I would also at some point like to connect a DVD player I have instead of having to run it through the PC DVD player, which also has s-video and optical. I can understand I would need to swap the optical cables as my sound system only allows 2 optical/1 coaxial, but is it possible to make it easy to have four s-video feeds in to the one TV connection??

Is there some sort of adaptor I can buy, is there an easy way to do it, am I able to view the SD box through my Foxtel?? Any way to get the video coming through together when both connected?

Thanks for advice!!

[Ext User(RM)]

timeshift wrote:

>
> Up until now I have been running a Foxtel iQ via s-video to a capture
> card (HDTV card with s-video input) on my computer viewed with a
> program called Dscaler, viewing on a 21" CRT and had audio with optical
> connected directly to the 5.1 sound system - as was the computer.
>
> I've struck it lucky and scored myself a free Panasonic 80cm TV with
> Monitor Out, AV1 in, and AV2 in - RCA. There is also an s-video
> connector above the AV1 in connectors.
>
> At the moment I don't have it all going and need advice on how to
> proceed with this.
>
> The sound should be ok as I can connect the Foxtel box with optical,
> Digital box with optical, and PC with coaxial sound, but as far as
> video goes i'm not sure.
>
> If I connect my SCART to video out cable to AV2 in yellow socket, I get
> SD. If I unplug it and connect my Foxtel with s-video to AV1, I get
> Foxtel. If I connect them both, I cannot view both by changing the AV
> mode on the TV remote. Only the Foxtel will show.
>
> The SD Box has a passthrough for antenna, could this help? The SD Box
> has composite and SCART (which means I can do SCART->s-video) outputs.
> The iQ box has s-video, the computer also has s-video.
>
> I would also at some point like to connect a DVD player I have instead
> of having to run it through the PC DVD player, which also has s-video
> and optical. I can understand I would need to swap the optical cables
> as my sound system only allows 2 optical/1 coaxial, but is it possible
> to make it easy to have four s-video feeds in to the one TV
> connection??
>
> Is there some sort of adaptor I can buy, is there an easy way to do it,
> am I able to view the SD box through my Foxtel?? Any way to get the
> video coming through together when both connected?
>
> Thanks for advice!!

you're not very clear ;)

you have:
an SD STB with svideo out and digital out?
an IQ
a PC with s-video in and digital out
and a future DVD player...
a new TV

now what do you want to achieve?
any video source to play on the PC or TV at anytime?

is the digital out on PC needed once you add a DVD?

is it an audio only receiver?

without knowing what you want to achieve:

if its a SD STB, and you don't watch showtime/PPV on foxtel
then one or the other wouldn't be hurt much by switching one
to analog when you add the DVD.

if you're audio system is just an audio receiver then you could
have the STB connected to the foxtel via scart to scart and
the IQ output scart-svideo to the TV. IQ's s-video output to
the PC.

the the TV gets STB/IQ and the PC just IQ.

the AV button on the remote will make the IQ pass through the scart inputs
but it won't touch the dedicated svideo output.

if you attach both a svideo and composite input to AV1 more than likely
the TV will pick the s-video.

would all be solved by a good A/V receiver..... or you're going
to be splitting or switching audio/svideo cables when DVD turns up.

RM

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I've solved it. I bought the following:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=AC1670&CATID=&keywords=ac1670&SPECIAL=&form=KEYWORD&ProdCodeOnly=&Keyword1=&Keyword2=&pageNumber=&priceMin=&priceMax=&SUBCATID=

I'll connect the iQ, computer, DVD and SD box all to the receiver with s-video, and the receiver to the TV's s-video.

I'll connect the iQ and SD box with optical and computer with coaxial for sound, and then just disconnect the SD and connect the DVD when I need to.

Problem solvered :-)