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Connecting Video Equipment to XCLAIM TV

If you are planning to capture video and sound from a

VCR, camcorder or other external video equipment, you

should make the connections using the input ports on your

XCLAIM TV tuner. These input ports provide a Ôpass-

throughÕ function to route video and sound from the

external equipment to your computer. Once you have made

the appropriate connections, you enable a pass-through

function by selecting the input source using Xclaim Video

Player Õs Remote Control palette (refer to the Xclaim Video

Player UserÕs Guide for help in selecting video sources).

XCLAIM TV has pass-through inputs for the two major

video formats Ð S-video and composite. (To determine the

format that your equipment uses, check your equipment

manual.) For audio, the two RCA-type audio inputs (for

left and right audio channels) are typically used for audio

pass-through; however, when capturing video to

XCLAIM VRÕs composite input port, the Sound Input port

( ) on XCLAIM TV provides the audio pass-through.

To connect S-video equipment, you will need a standard 4-

pin S-video cable (available at most electronic supply

stores). To make composite video and audio connections,

you can use three separate cables, or an all-in-one cable

(three joined cables Ð one video and two audio) with RCA

connectors at each end (available at most electronic supply

stores). The yellow connector is for the composite video, the

red connector is for the right channel audio, and the white

connector is for the left channel audio. The illustration on

the next page shows some typical conÞgurations.

If you are connecting mono video equipment (i.e., only

one audio channel), you can use either the left or right

audio input on XCLAIM TV for the audio connection, but

typically the left (white) audio input is used.

If your video source provides composite video and S-video,

S-video will produce better results . To use S-video,

simply make the appropriate connection to XCLAIM TV,

then select the ÒS-VideoÓ input source using Xclaim Video

Player Õs Remote Control palette (refer to the Xclaim Video

Player UserÕs Guide for help in selecting video sources).