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Title: Sony FD Trinitron Wega + VGA to Component Transcoder + crt_emudriver?
Post by: spacorn on October 29, 2017, 10:59:49 pm

Hello!

I hope I'm making this thread in the right place. It's my first time trying to hook up a PC to a CRT TV and I thought I had read and understood enough to try it but sadly I can't get things to work  :dunno

I got a Sony FD Trinitron Wega (KV-29FA540). It's a huge consumer Sony CRT TV. Since it doesn't have a VGA input, I bought this VGA to Component Transcoder (Retrotek VGACTV) (http://"https://www.ebay.com/itm/192116647418?ul_noapp=true#rwid"). Now I'm trying to hook my PC using VGA Output -> Transcoder ->Component cables input setup. It's the "DVD" 480i input of the TV.

I installed crt_emudriver 2.0 on a PC with a R5 230 following this guide (http://"http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1052"), fresh Windows 7 install and all. But on the EDID emulation step, I can't get the TV to show anything. I tried the NTSC TV preset first, then the Arcade 15hz setting just in case, but I can't get any visible image.

What am I missing? Is the transcoder I got not the right thing for this setup? Or do I need to tweak vmmaker setting in a certain way for this to work on my TV?

Please any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Title: Re: Sony FD Trinitron Wega + VGA to Component Transcoder + crt_emudriver?
Post by: PL1 on October 29, 2017, 11:32:53 pm

Quote from: spacorn on October 29, 2017, 10:59:49 pm

I bought this VGA to Component Transcoder (Retrotek VGACTV) (https://www.ebay.com/itm/192116647418?ul_noapp=true#rwid).
. . .
I installed crt_emudriver 2.0 on a PC with a R5 230 following this guide (http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1052)

Fixed the links for you.   :cheers:


Scott

Title: Re: Sony FD Trinitron Wega + VGA to Component Transcoder + crt_emudriver?
Post by: spacorn on October 30, 2017, 02:51:50 pm

Ok, I fixed two problems and it worked.

One, my components cable was broken af.
And two, my VGA output is Analog_0 instead of Analog_1 for some reason. According to the guide it was supposed to be _1 since it has a DVI port that should've been the main one, but it happened to be the opposite on my particular card.

So that's the lesson from this thread. Check your cables, and try all outputs on vmmaker.  :applaud:

Thanks anyway to the whole community for putting up all the resources that led me to finally having this working!

Quote from: PL1 on October 29, 2017, 11:32:53 pm

Fixed the links for you.   :cheers:

Thank you! It's been awhile, and forgot to preview the post  ;D