Re: Second Sight and the VOC

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

ntt@cleese.apana.org.au (Jonathan Pratt) wrote:
>shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:
>> No one has asked the question implied by the subject of this thread -
>> can you do genlock with a VOC with one of these things?
>
>That ought to be obvious.  The answer will most certainly be no because
>the SS video board will not have a composite output which is the input for
>the VOC.  It would be theoretically possible to pump the picture into the
>connector at the keyboard end to get an image.

Huh?  Why bother with the composite output?  As is, it doesn't seem like SS
supports the VOC's overlay capabilities, but if I were to tinker around
with a video card, the approaches I'd consider are:

Hook up the VOC's RGB output to an input on the video card.

If you're just using a GS RGB monitor, send output from the video card to
the video expansion bus on the VOC.  I wonder if this approach would work
with SS.

Forget the VOC and make an overlay upgrade for the video card :-)


If you just want to watch TV on a VGA monitor, check out the Oct '90 issue
of Radio-Electronics.  Another issue shows how to make a PC video overlay
card but I don't remember the date offhand.