Watching DivX on home TV

[Anonymous]

yo,

wondering if any of you technical monkeys could help out here - i want to watch my ever-expanding library of DivX .avi's on my nice big widescreen TV (not on my v. small monitor) and was wondering what i'd need in the way of hardware/cables in order to hook my PC up to my TV

My TV's just you standard affair, with SCART, PAL and normal analogue in
My comp has a GF2 and no TV card

any help here guys? thx in advance...

[Dr Sadako]

If you get a graphics card with TV output support then it is very simple. Then you just need to buy a cable with scart at one end and S-video+sound at the other end.

Some graphics card come with program to handle the signal some do it automatically via the card. I use a program called TV tool.

[-]Oi[-Rooster]

After what I have heard, it is possible to watch divxmovies through a microsoft x-box....just burn them on a cd, and install all codecs needed.

Or buy a Kiss!

http://www.kiss-technology.com/


Some alternatives if you want to spend some money...  

[JB]

or buy one of these from here

[Anonymous]

cheers JB - that's a pretty low cost solution

i'll get 1 when i've got round to getting a job

[Gizmo]

When I want to watch a DivX downstairs, I simply hook up the TV-Out on my laptop to the TV, and stream the video over my wireless LAN.
Works pretty well. The picture and sound quality remains pretty much unchanged.

[suicidal_monkey]

or, of course, you could upgrade your graphics card and make sure you buy one with tv-out


 :roll:

[Anonymous]

yer ben, but i still know nowt about cables and stuff (and for all i know my current gfx card may have a tv out )

so would i just need a normal cable, like the one that runs from a tv to a video recorder?

[suicidal_monkey]

look at the back of your vid card - the likely pinouts are sort of rectangular multi-pin jobs. the tv out is normally round s-video or something I think. Then if you got one of them you just need a cable

If you get a graphics card with TV output support then it is very simple. Then you just need to buy a cable with scart at one end and S-video+sound at the other end.

[Anonymous]

or it maybe likely if you ave any spare outputs left on the gfx card.