[ltp] Direct Video on TV with S-Video

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/5/05, Mike Kershaw <dragorn@nerv-un.net> wrote:
> > I have no idea about this theme, and maybe someone could help me... I
> > want to connect the laptop with the converter, so I can connect the RCA
> > (the yellow wire) and then connect also the RCA to the TV in-RCA
> > connector. Then the TV knows I have done something and changes the
> > channel to AV3, so I start my computer but nothing of my laptop appear
> > on the TV.
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> 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).
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> You actually need a converter box to go to RCA.
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> I could be mistaken, but, all the adapters I've seen aren't really
> converting.  Svid is fairly different from RCA.
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They are the same but s-video separates chroma and luma, while they
are combined with RCA. The adapters just combine the Y and C signals.=20
I think anyway; it's been a while since I played with tv signals.

> Not that this solves your basic problem of getting a signal to the
> svideo output in the first place.
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> -m
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