Brian Bleech Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 Right I have an old pc (intel 700mhz with 256 of ram and basic graphic) and I am getting an external harddrive. I want to use this old pc to watch films, vid, etc I have downloaded on my tv. I know the tv will be pants for actually using the pc for anything other than watching stuff, but that doesn’t matter.What sort of card will I need to get? Will a basic graphics card with a tv out, be fine? The only things that will be running is the operation system and the media player (VLC) or will I need a graphic card with some beef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 (edited) any old card with a tv out should be fine. you'd probably want a hardware mpeg thingy so probably best to go for one of the low end nvidia or ATI jobsIf you can arrange it so you're using Svideo or the other decent quality one rather than RF you'll probably get away with using it for a bit of web browsing (youporn on your tv ) Edited August 29, 2007 by poopipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Bleech Posted August 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 cheers poop, got it working except it outputs in black and white and not colour... garr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 cheers poop, got it working except it outputs in black and white and not colour... garrthat's either a driver setting (check video overlay settings for the tv in display properties > advanced etc.. )or you've got the wrong cable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 cheers poop, got it working except it outputs in black and white and not colour... garrBetter than me, my card won't recognise my tv as an output device so i can't get the damn thing to work. I've got S-video out on the card, and an S-video to yellow co-axial adapter, then an xbox yellow, white and red adapter to scart socket.I reckon it "may" be a case of too many convertors, so an s-video cable and a scart adapter would be a better bet i think.... just can't be arsed really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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