Capturing video/audio from an arcade cabinet help

Tech Talk
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Hey guys. Did a search but couldn’t find anything. So check this out:

Here at UC Davis we have an arcade cabinet for SF4 and we run monthly tournaments. I would like to get direct capture footage from the machine. Currently the outputs for this machine is DVI. My capture devise is composite. I am wondering if i can attack a DVI to VGA adapter and then a VGA to composite to my capture device. I am not sure if there is anything that prevents this from working or what. Thank you guys for your time.

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You can’t do it with just a cable, but you can get a converter to do VGA -> Composite/S-Video

Here’s one.

The converters can get expensive depending on what options they have. No matter what one you get the quality drop is going to be very noticeable. I have an old one that converts up to 1280x1024 VGA to S-Video and the end result is just so low quality its ridiculous.

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i found this: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-M9267G-DVI-Video-Adapter/dp/B0000ACOBL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1244668019&sr=1-1

seems like it is what i am looking for at an affordable price. now i need to find out how to get sound.

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No that won’t work. Thats built for apple comps that support it. When you plug that in to the Mac, it detects the cable and switches to TV Out mode. The video hardware in the comp handles converting it to TV format.

If you plug that in to a standard DVI it won’t do anything.

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ah i see, silly me. so if i got this vga to composite converter would i need to by some converter for dvi to vga? or is it just an adapter?

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DVI to VGA should just need a cable. But, honestly, I am not 100% certain since I think DVI could be analog or digital and I think most VGA->Composite converters only take analog.

I am remembering that from reading up I did a while ago.