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My friend has a wireless security camera that uses a transmitter that interfaces with a TV via an A/V cable. He wants to connect the transmitter to his laptop rather than a TV, but his laptop does not have RCA connections. Is there a converter/adaptor that he can buy that will convert RCA to USB or serial? Or is there another solution? :unsure

 

Matthew

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I sell these but it's a bit overkill for your application:

http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/viewprod.php?productid=USB205

 

Exactly what is required, but my friend is a cheapskate so that unit is about 10 times more expensive than what he is willing to pay :rolleyes You don't sell a "tightarse" version of that, do you? :badgrin

 

Matthew

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Exactly what is required, but my friend is a cheapskate so that unit is about 10 times more expensive than what he is willing to pay :rolleyes You don't sell a "tightarse" version of that, do you? :badgrin

 

I can always make a USB - RCA lead for you. $25. Oh, does it have to work? :lol

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No I can't see that working. That is merely an adaptor cable if you're laptop can already do TV-OUT.

 

Since you need to go INTO the laptop monitor, they really don't have any built-in interface for video-in of any kind, whether it is VGA/RCA/S-Video unless it is perhaps some primo laptop with a video capture card etc.

 

Thus the only really viable input is USB, and to convert from RCA to USB would take some pretty heavy/nifty analog-digital signal processing (hence why Davids product is large/expensive).

 

I think there are probably PCMCIA Video-in cards out there, I seem to remember a guy i used to live with had one so he could play PS2 on laptop monitor.

 

Ill have a squiz

Regan

 

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This should do the trick:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Notebook-PCMCIA-NTSC-PAL-TV-Tuner-Video-MPEG-Card_W0QQitemZ260235348522QQihZ016QQcategoryZ111509QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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No I can't see that working. That is merely an adaptor cable if you're laptop can already do TV-OUT.

 

Since you need to go INTO the laptop monitor, they really don't have any built-in interface for video-in of any kind, whether it is VGA/RCA/S-Video unless it is perhaps some primo laptop with a video capture card etc.

 

Thus the only really viable input is USB, and to convert from RCA to USB would take some pretty heavy/nifty analog-digital signal processing (hence why Davids product is large/expensive).

 

I think there are probably PCMCIA Video-in cards out there, I seem to remember a guy i used to live with had one so he could play PS2 on laptop monitor.

 

Ill have a squiz

Regan

 

EDIT:

 

This should do the trick:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Notebook-PCMCIA-NTSC-PAL-TV-Tuner-Video-MPEG-Card_W0QQitemZ260235348522QQihZ016QQcategoryZ111509QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Thanks for the info, I'll pass it on to my friend :)

 

Matthew

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