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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: Scipi on July 09, 2011, 11:51:55 am

Title: RCA input to the computer
Post by: Scipi on July 09, 2011, 11:51:55 am

I found recently that my computer has RCA ports and so I got the bright idea to try to connect me Xbox to them to easily play my games with headphones since I can use my speakers. What I'm wondering is, how can I take those inputs, and output them to the screen and speakers in order to play my games? I've looked on Google but nothing helped me. Thanks.

Title: Re: RCA input to the computer
Post by: thepenguin77 on July 09, 2011, 01:38:12 pm

So are you looking for software to do it? Because if you are, I got VLC Media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) to work for me. I play xbox games through a VHS->DVD converter and plug the sound lines straight into my microphone jack. You might have to play around with the settings a little to get it to not buffer the video though (it lags slightly)


If you are looking for something else, well, then be more specific ;D

Title: Re: RCA input to the computer
Post by: fb39ca4 on July 09, 2011, 01:57:49 pm

Are you sure they are inputs and not outputs? I know an old laptop of mine had an RCA video port, but it was only video out.

Title: Re: RCA input to the computer
Post by: Scipi on July 09, 2011, 02:07:26 pm

Yes they are all inputs. There's a silver box around them labeled, "input".

Quote from: thepenguin77 on July 09, 2011, 01:38:12 pm

So are you looking for software to do it? Because if you are, I got VLC Media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) to work for me. I play xbox games through a VHS->DVD converter and plug the sound lines straight into my microphone jack. You might have to play around with the settings a little to get it to not buffer the video though (it lags slightly)


If you are looking for something else, well, then be more specific ;D

I'll try that. My brother has me trying to go through windows media center but I can't figure it out. :/

EDIT: Ok so I have VLC now, what do I do to get it to record the video and sound?

Title: Re: RCA input to the computer
Post by: thepenguin77 on July 09, 2011, 02:32:57 pm

If you want to record the video and sound, I'm pretty sure movie maker can do it. I've done it before with movie maker. Just make sure that your computer is taking in the video and the sound and go to capture from device in movie maker, that's what I did.

I have no idea if you can record in VLC, you probably can, I just don't know how.