how do you play a video through an s-video cable from your computer to your t.v.?
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Once you hook up the s-video cable (this will only carry video info...if you need audio you will have to use a mini-headphone jack to RCA adapter) you will hit your "Fn" button and whichever "F" key has a logo of a screen next to a normal screen.\n\nFor my IBM it is the F7 key, some Dells it is F4, you should be able to figure it out from the icon on the key. \n\nAlso if you want to have the laptop screen and the TV going at the same time, you will have to set the primary display by right clicking on the desktop and going to properties.  When this window opens go to settings and double click on the "screen" which will take you to multiple settings including setting the "primary."  This is also the screen where you can adjust the resolution for each display.\n\nGood luck!\n\nMikeC
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does your tv have an s-video connection? if so thats one way......but a video card with a vga connection is your best bet
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Dell Inspiron doesn't have a builtin S-video part. You need an interface for using S-Video with the laptop.
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if it has the inpuit, then it should have the neccessary softwares for that. a usually laptop have s-video out, until you have a TV-turner or something
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If your laptop has a yellow video port, with an RCA jack connection, just use a common video cable to hook the laptop's yellow plug with the yellow plug on the TV.  \nIf your laptop has only the external monitor port, you probably won't be able to connect the two without an adapter.
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these answers that suggest of using a USB to USB Datalink Cable are in principle correct but it doesn't work because you can neither share the folders nor install the communication program on the PC for this Link Cable. did you ever try to do this blindly? .. :p\nso it might be the better solution to hook the TV set to the PC using a S-video cable, provided that the PC has an S-video output and the TV set has the corresponding input.
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use a video capture card in your PC to link it up.
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you can use a tuner box. its an external device that you hook up onto your laptop via USB port and it has connections for your cable tv, antenna, vcr, etc. \n\ncheck this out.\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815312001
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put a t.v. on top of your computer
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Play the video with sound first, if you got screen and sound, then you have no hardware connection program.\nIf hardware, check cable, sound card, plug, socket, on both ends, try it on other pc if you can\nIf not hardware, then is software, you have to check the platform sound control, the capture software setting etc.\nUpdate of sound driver to the latest is a must before the software test.
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Try this software.  I didn't check it out personally, but it claims to be capable of doing what you need it to:\n\nhttp://www.download.com/Plato-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10516907.html?tag=lst-0-7\n\nhope this helps.  That is the download link.
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plug the cable into your converter.\nplug your tv into the converter\nplug your dvd player into your tv\nplug your vcr into your tv\nturn your tv on
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You can do this.  I have a computer with a TV card, too.  Look for the video and sound inputs (should be white, yellow and red).  And in your media center there should be a option to play that input device.  If you want to just connect your PS2 to your monitor you have to buy a VGA box.  Here's an example:
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The cost of what your trying to do is not worth it, the easy way to do what you want is buy a USB TV  converter, about $45 or even cheaper, install it, then plug your video cable RCA jack on the converter,run the TV scan with your game console plugged in and you should have the screen on your laptop and just set it for full screen, or better yet use your TV and or VCR.... But if you do what i said you can also use your VCR to your laptop for converting VCR movies on to DVD's... Cool
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Use MS XP pro...get a video card...and RCA cables...hook the output of U VCR to the input of the Video card....U should be able to handle the rest!
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yes you can...what you need is a video card with "video in" or a tv-capture card.\n\nhere is a site that offers them and tutorials on how to do it\n\nhttp://www.videoguys.com/vidcap.htm
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you need :\n\na S-video-out port on the Sony-viao\na S-video cable\nto know what channel your TV's alternate input, a/v input, (it is likely the same channel you use to play DVD's on your TV, assuming you can and do.)\nAnd last Windows XP\n\n1. With the Laptop off, plug S-video cable in, turn on TV.\n\n2. Turn-on Laptop, when at desktop, and all programs are loaded.\n\n3. right-click on the desktop, choose 'properties', when the 'Display Properties' window opens.\n\n4. Click the 'settings' tab.  You should see 2 monitors.\nMake sure your Laptop monitor is #1 and on the left of the TV, if not, then click it and drag it to the left.\n\n5. Click the down-arrow, choose the TV monitor, Clear the check-box for 'extend my windows desktop to this monitor' if not already clear.  This will make your TV display the same thing as your laptop.\n\n6. click the down-arrow, choose the laptop monitor, check 'set as primary monitor'\n\nclick 'ok', and 'ok' again.\n\nHope this helps !