Since the video card doesn’t provide audio inputs, the installation of the VCR to your computer is a little bit different, since you will need to install the VCR’s audio outputs to your motherboard. You will need the cable shown on Figure 19, which has a 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack at one end and two male RCA connectors (one is usually white and the other is usually red) at the other. This is the very same cable used to connect a Discman to a home stereo, so you may ask for this kind of cable when shopping.
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Figure 19: Cable that will be needed to install the VCR to the PC.
The cable connection on the VCR will be done like shown on Figure 20. You must use the connectors labeled “line out” on the VCR. The audio outputs from the VCR must be connected to the mini-jack cable (cable on Figure 19) and the video output from the VCR must use one RCA-RCA cable to be connected to your video card. In our case, instead of buying a RCA-RCA cable, we used the standard A/V cable shown on Figure 14, because it came with the VCR and we could use it for free. As you can see, we plugged in only the yellow connector from the cable, leaving the other two connectors (white and red) unplugged.
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Figure 20: Installing the cables to the VCR.
The other yellow connector from the A/V cable (video output) must be installed to the video composite input of the video card, as shown on Figure 21.
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Figure 21: Installing the VCR video output to the VIVO video card.
The other cable should be installed to the “line in” connector on your motherboard, which is light blue, see Figure 22.
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Figure 22: Installing the VCR audio output to the motherboard.
If your computer has more than one blue connector, as it is the case of the computer found on Figure 23, use the connector located near the green (which is the “line out” output) and the pink (which is the “mic in” input) connectors.
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Figure 23: Installing the VCR audio output to the motherboard.
Now that everything is connected, it is time for capturing what is in your VHS tape. This is done by software and we will cover this on the next part of our tutorial.
