[ltp] Direct Video on TV with S-Video

[Eben King]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote:

> Mike Kershaw said the following on 2005.05.05 16:07:
> > My understanding is that the little svideo->rca adapters that come with
> > video cards are NOT really svid to rci.  They just extract another pin
> > out of the video card side (similar to DVI->VGA adapters just pulling
> > the analog pins into a VGA connector).
> > 
> > You actually need a converter box to go to RCA.
> > 
> > I could be mistaken, but, all the adapters I've seen aren't really
> > converting.  Svid is fairly different from RCA.

> While I have never tried it on my R50p w/ Gentoo, it "Just Works" on my
> PowerBook G4 and I use the same S-video to RCA converter that Mike
> describes. I only say this because I do _not_ believe you need a special
> "converter box." The cable you describe should work.

My ancient (in computer terms) 6100/66AV has S-video in and out, and it came
with some SVid<->RCA adapters.  I tried to use those adapters on something
else, only to find out Apple's version of S-video has some extra pins.  I
count 4 pins in standard S-video and 6 on my adapters.  Yours may be the
same way.

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