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Searching for old software that works with old tv tuner (yes, i know that analog tv is dead)

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First post, by vorob

Posted on 2021-06-05, 21:41

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Sooo... Long story short, I've got Toshiba 5205-705 with bay expansion that have TV tuner. Laptop was sold with Win XP MCE and tuner works there without a problem, but now I've got usual xp pro sp3 and there are no MCE software, and other apps i was installing didn't help, they all got error that they cant get in touch with my tuner.

Since i've got no documentation on this device, maybe you can also enlighten me what these ports are for?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 6, by adalbert

Posted on 2021-06-05, 22:33

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I would guess that the left one is TV antenna input, and the right one is video capture input. There should be some minijack adapters which can breakout these ports to antenna and RCA connectors.

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Reply 2 of 6, by vorob

Posted on 2021-06-05, 22:50

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adalbert wrote on 2021-06-05, 22:33:

I would guess that the left one is TV antenna input, and the right one is video capture input. There should be some minijack adapters which can breakout these ports to antenna and RCA connectors.

Yeee... I was able to find the manual and you are right,

But this 2.5mm port is quite uncommon as I see in google...

Reply 3 of 6, by adalbert

Posted on 2021-06-05, 22:58

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vorob wrote on 2021-06-05, 22:50:

But this 2.5mm port is quite uncommon as I see in google...

You could buy 2.5mm headphone adapter or something like that, cut it and solder some wires. But... you wouldn't be able to receive any TV anyway now? (but it might work for old game consoles and microcomputers I guess)

Reply 4 of 6, by vorob

Posted on 2021-06-05, 23:09

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Exactly 😀 I'll try SNES tomorrow. But I still search for software that can work with it. And for test I'll keep MCE as second OS

Reply 5 of 6, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2021-06-05, 23:13

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Random newsgroup post which had to be dug out of googles cache (And I don't know how long/if those links are any good to post)

""Jay Kapur [MSFT]18 years ago
The Toshiba is equipped witht the eMuzed Bali USB PVR,
which uses a Broadcom hardware MPEG2 encoder.""

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Reply 6 of 6, by adalbert

Posted on 2021-06-05, 23:25

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You can try VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod software. Or DScaler http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/ (DScaler is meant specific for analog video capture, i think it also can interface directly with the hardware?)
I think I used them for both PCI and USB video capture, but that was long time ago.

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