MP with three analog inputs (1 Viewer)

[riadmelb]

Hi to all,

I'm new to MP and would like some assistance in designing something I couldn't find in the forum. I need to build a new MP computer to allow three s-video with stereo as the inputs for MP, and need to have only three channels in MP for these three inputs. Is there a card with three s-video inputs? Or I need to buy three PCI cards? In any case what do you recommend?

Another thing is I need to output the best picture possible to a projector, plasma and crt (three display units in three different location in the house). I'm 99% sure that there is no video card to output three signals at once. Should I get a video card with both dvi and s-video out so I can split the dvi to plasma and projector and s-video to crt?

The last thing is I need to have the plasma and projector away from MP computer 10 meters or so, and cannot find cheap dvi cable extension or dvi signal booster anywhere, have you guys run into the same problem?

Thank you for listening,
riadmelb

 

[zswman]

I can't help you w/ a single-card solution to your three input problem. You could go with two PVR-150 cards with the optional extra input hardware - this would give you up to 4 S-video inputs.

Most dual-head video display cards I have seen will only allow you to drive two displays at one time, even if they also provide a s-video (for TV) output. You can only drive, for example, the DVI + RGB or DVI + S-video, etc. If you can use the RGB output, you could purchase a 2x monitor multiplier (the two displays at the same resolution) and then use one of the other cards outputs for your other display.

As far as cables, this is a high-quality, high-value vendor : http://www.ramelectronics.net/

 

[riadmelb]

Digital card with s-video input?

Thank you and sorry for the late reply.

I finally got to build the HTPC, but the last component is missing which are the capture/tuner cards. What I need now is two s-video inputs and one digital TV tuner. Is there a digital card which has s-video input as well? The website of Hauppauge is confusing and couldn’t find an answer in the forum as well. I live in Australia.

Thank you again for your time,
Riadmelb