Solve : Transferring AVI to VHS?

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Answer» Hey - I have some video on my laptop I'd rather watch on the "big screen"... I have an S-Video output on my laptop and input on my teevee, but that obviously doesn't give me SOUND... Is there like a USB=>RCA adaptor or something like that? ThanksAll the necessary LEADS are available and a cheaper option might be a "video copying kit". These were commonplace a few years ago when copying from VCR to VCR was all the rage. They contained just about every combination of lead imaginable and I SEE them occasionally in pound shops and the like. Your big problem is that unless your laptop has audio connections to the outside world, you're stumped.Head off down to Maplin/Tandy. Grab a lead to convert from your 3.5mm stereo output to twin phonos. Then grab an S-Video + Stereo Phono to SCART converter. That'll do the trick.Quote Head off down to Maplin/Tandy. Grab a lead to convert from your 3.5mm stereo output to twin phonos. Then grab an S-Video + Stereo Phono to SCART converter. That'll do the trick. OK, I'm going to attempt to translate that into a language I understand... Go to Radio Shack, get something that will go from the headphone jack (isn't that 2.5mm? OK) into a LEFT and right RCA. Then go S-video to video... Whats Stereo Phono to SCART converter? And then, what am I doing, essentially just videotaping my computer session? ThanksIt's a SCART socket with phono and S-video sockets mounted on the back: Be careful when using output from a headphone socket and keep the volume low. Headphone sockets are not meant to be used for this purpose.Thanks. I'm still a bit confused... Here are my outputs on my laptop: S-Video, 4 USB (yes, four), RJ45, RJ11, headphone, other audio (I THOUGHT 2.5, it's same size as headphone... Is that 2.5 or 3.5, I'm not certain), a 1394, and an external monitor (three rows of five pinholes, staggered). My VCR has RCA input (which is what I would PREFER to go into); My TV has S-Video and RCA sound and video input. Is there such a beast that I can plug in to my laptop and go straight into my VCR? Isn't that what 1394 is eventually supposed to do? I know, I'm too retro....A little too retro for what you want to perhaps. It looks like it would be best to input to the TV and tape from that if possible. Grab a manual and find out exactly what the "other audio" socket on the laptop does. If needs be, buy a new VCR. They're about UK£25 BRAND new in the likes of Aldi etc and it would make life much easier for you.Yeah, no... I was looking for the under-ten-dollar-spit-and-chewing-gum solution.... (er, make that the under-five-quid-spit-and-chewing-gum-solution)lol.... It'll probably cost you at least that for the leads. I've got a perfectly good stereo video with dual SCART here that's about to go in the bin as no-one wants it!

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Hey - I have some video on my laptop I'd rather watch on the "big screen"...

I have an S-Video output on my laptop and input on my teevee, but that obviously doesn't give me SOUND...

Is there like a USB=>RCA adaptor or something like that?

ThanksAll the necessary LEADS are available and a cheaper option might be a "video copying kit". These were commonplace a few years ago when copying from VCR to VCR was all the rage. They contained just about every combination of lead imaginable and I SEE them occasionally in pound shops and the like.

Your big problem is that unless your laptop has audio connections to the outside world, you're stumped.Head off down to Maplin/Tandy. Grab a lead to convert from your 3.5mm stereo output to twin phonos. Then grab an S-Video + Stereo Phono to SCART converter. That'll do the trick.Quote

Head off down to Maplin/Tandy. Grab a lead to convert from your 3.5mm stereo output to twin phonos. Then grab an S-Video + Stereo Phono to SCART converter. That'll do the trick.

OK, I'm going to attempt to translate that into a language I understand...

Go to Radio Shack, get something that will go from the headphone jack (isn't that 2.5mm? OK) into a LEFT and right RCA. Then go S-video to video...

Whats Stereo Phono to SCART converter?

And then, what am I doing, essentially just videotaping my computer session?

ThanksIt's a SCART socket with phono and S-video sockets mounted on the back:

Be careful when using output from a headphone socket and keep the volume low. Headphone sockets are not meant to be used for this purpose.Thanks. I'm still a bit confused...

Here are my outputs on my laptop:

S-Video, 4 USB (yes, four), RJ45, RJ11, headphone, other audio (I THOUGHT 2.5, it's same size as headphone... Is that 2.5 or 3.5, I'm not certain), a 1394, and an external monitor (three rows of five pinholes, staggered).

My VCR has RCA input (which is what I would PREFER to go into);

My TV has S-Video and RCA sound and video input.

Is there such a beast that I can plug in to my laptop and go straight into my VCR? Isn't that what 1394 is eventually supposed to do?

I know, I'm too retro....A little too retro for what you want to perhaps.
It looks like it would be best to input to the TV and tape from that if possible.
Grab a manual and find out exactly what the "other audio" socket on the laptop does.
If needs be, buy a new VCR. They're about UK£25 BRAND new in the likes of Aldi etc and it would make life much easier for you.Yeah, no... I was looking for the under-ten-dollar-spit-and-chewing-gum solution.... (er, make that the under-five-quid-spit-and-chewing-gum-solution)lol.... It'll probably cost you at least that for the leads. I've got a perfectly good stereo video with dual SCART here that's about to go in the bin as no-one wants it!

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