[ltp] Direct Video on TV with S-Video

[Mario Limonciello]

If you start playing around with the fglrx driver and have any sort of
general luck with it, you might get tv out working.  I couldnt
however.

On 5/5/05, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 R=
CA
> > > (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 appea=
r
> > > on the TV.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>=20
> 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.
> I think anyway; it's been a while since I played with tv signals.
>=20
> > Not that this solves your basic problem of getting a signal to the
> > svideo output in the first place.
> >
> > -m
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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