AV Input

[jordguitar]

Your video card should have that.

You need to look on your tv and look for one of these:


If your tv has that then find this cord and hook it up



Either will work but you wont get sound but it will use the media center.

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[Altiarch]

You could have just said S-video.
And that's output, apparently he wants input.

[jordguitar]

You could have just said S-video.
And that's output, apparently he wants input.

Then he needs a tv tuner card

[WRB852]

I have a TV tuner card. You guys have either been helping me do something that I already know how to do, or something I'm not trying to do, or something that I've already done.

I'm trying to hook my Xbox to my computer. Therefore Media Center ON MY COMPUTER will receive a video feed FROM THE XBOX. This way I don't require a TV to play my Xbox. The problem now is that I'm trying to trick Media Center into thinking my Xbox feed is cable, when that's not the case. I finally set everything up, and it doesn't let me continue even though the preview worked perfectly. It says IR Hardware not detected. IR Hardware is something that Media Center uses to switch channels on your cable box. I do not need this because you can't change channels on an Xbox anyhow. So it would work if I could simply skip the IR Hardware step, but Microsoft has to be loving handicapped and not let me enjoy their two products I bought. forget you Microsoft.

[jordguitar]

I have a TV tuner card. You guys have either been helping me do something that I already know how to do, or something I'm not trying to do, or something that I've already done.

I'm trying to hook my Xbox to my computer. Therefore Media Center ON MY COMPUTER will receive a video feed FROM THE XBOX. This way I don't require a TV to play my Xbox. The problem now is that I'm trying to trick Media Center into thinking my Xbox feed is cable, when that's not the case. I finally set everything up, and it doesn't let me continue even though the preview worked perfectly. It says IR Hardware not detected. IR Hardware is something that Media Center uses to switch channels on your cable box. I do not need this because you can't change channels on an Xbox anyhow. So it would work if I could simply skip the IR Hardware step, but Microsoft has to be loving handicapped and not let me enjoy their two products I bought. forget you Microsoft.

That would have been helpfull earlier. What type of tv card.

[WRB852]

"NTSC TV tuner and over-the-air ATSC high-definition television tuner"

That's the most descriptive information I could find. The tuner came with the computer.

[Altiarch]

Even if you achieve this, it will look stufftier on the monitor than your TV because it will be completely stretched out. It would be like playing a 640x480 game in fullscreen on a 1280x1024 monitor. Even worse, half games will be more like the lowest widescreen resolution out there, and half will be 4:3. So no matter what kind of monitor you have, half the games will be stretched the wrong way, and the other half just stretched proportionately. Anyway, I don't care too much about media center other than streaming things to my 360, so I can't help you.

* Altiarch leaves topic

[WRB852]

Calm yourself. It didn't look warped in any way at all on the preview screen.

[jordguitar]

Are there cable ports on the computer anywhere?

If so hook that up

(wall to computer to tv) then hook up xbox to tv and turn it on and go to media center and you should be seeing your tv but i am not sure completely. just try that for now

[jordguitar]

also i dont use media center unless i am using it to transfer stuff to the xbox so i am not completely sure. just try stuff