[ltp] Direct Video on TV with S-Video

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

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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.

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

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