Re: capture screen activity to a VCR

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Have you tried a VGA to TV adapter ?
Perhaps the sync will be a problem (it often is) but this should be a 
possible solution. These devices are not expensive either and perhaps you can 
get a resonable result with a home made one.
You might check out this page :
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/vga2tv/

--
Marcel Janssen



On Wednesday 11 October 2000 23:42, you wrote:
>   I thought this would be soooo easy...
>
>   Does anyone know of a board that will support video (NTSC/PAL) output
>   while being fed with uncompressed data. What I want to do is make VCR
>   tapes of 640x480 portions of an application user interface.
>
>   I had planned to use the DC10+, which sounded like it did all the
>   things I wanted and wasn't very expensive, but I found out today
>   (thanks to Serguei Miridonov) that the Zoran ZR36067 pci interface
>   chip doesn't support uncompressed data coming from the cpu and going
>   out through the video hardware. Rats.
>
>   As a last resort I may try to jpeg encode the screen captures so I can
>   feed them to the DC10+ for display, but seems like a pretty ugly
>   solution and may not run fast enough, even on my very fast Compaq
>   xp1000 alpha.
>
>   Anyone have thoughts on this?
>
>   The DC10+ seems work pretty well under 2.2.18pre15





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