Composite RCA or S-Video via VLC

[rvf16]

Hello.

I am trying to watch video from an external DVD player on my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505 / Fedora 6) with VLC.

I have connected the DVD player via RCA to my Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS FM which works great (all functions).

An old application called zapping utilizes the composite RCA input of the Terratec device flawlessly (video and audio).
The zapping application has an option to choose which signal to display.

I am trying to do the same with VLC but don't know how to configure it.
I know that it is done with v4l2 and the devices are /dev/video0 and /dev/dsp1.
The problem is that those are also for the analog tv so every time i set them it always goes to that mode (analog TV not Composite RCA or S-Video).

How can i tell VLC to output the composite RCA or S-Video signal and not the analog TV one?

Thank you.
Regards.

[reige]

Select : Media -> Open Capture Device -> Advanced Options
There ist an input field labeled 'Input'
Select 1 for Composite and 2 for S-Video input

Regards reige

[kasun111]

Hi,
I have a Yuan USb tv tuner on win 7 x64 bit. I want to capture a video stream via RCA cable. The video works after setting input as 1, but audio did not work. In audio input devices it shows none, default and microphone options. Any ideas how to enable audio from RCA, it would be great help? (By the way capture audio works in windows MCE)

[TheLiquidator]

I had this problem with a USB Capture card in Linux because the audio component of the card was not recognised.

The solution for me was to get an RCA - 3.5cm cable and plug it into the microphone socket of my laptop.
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... CHYQ8wIwAQ

Instead of the mic/line in socket you can get the cable and one of these

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... JEBEPMCMAM

This also works pretty well.

HTH