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Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by Chrissyboi, Mar 13, 2009.

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  1. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    trying to connect my comp to an analog tv i have a S-video adapter type thingy that breaks up into 3 coloured plug things, green, red, and blue this connects to the TV's audio in and video in ports yes? like a console? just needing to know which colours match with the standard yellow,red,white pins ty for help
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 13, 2009
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  2. googolplex1234

    googolplex1234 Well-Known Member

    I don't think that there is any way to make component RCA plugs work with a composite RCA jack.
     
    googolplex1234, Mar 13, 2009
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  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    they don't plug in to those sockets, no. The sockets on your TV are composite video and audio, that is the video is on one cable (yellow) and the other two are audio. The plugs on the end of your s-video cable are component video, meaning all three are video, and the red, green and blue channels are separate. You have the wrong cable.
     
    Loonylion, Mar 13, 2009
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  4. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    do you know which cables i need that would alow me to do this?
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 13, 2009
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    yes, you need a tv out to composite cable for your graphics card.
     
    Loonylion, Mar 13, 2009
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  6. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    lawl TBH ima noob with comps so i have no idea wat u just said, any chance u know a web site that gives a detailed explaination?

    or wat i need to ask for at the local electronics store lawl
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 13, 2009
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I doubt you'd get the cable at an electronic store, they're specific to the graphics adaptor. can you post a photo of the cable you've got?
     
    Loonylion, Mar 13, 2009
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  8. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    yes i can just gimmie a min
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 13, 2009
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  9. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    wont let me attach the file :S 40kbg jpeg file?
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 13, 2009
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  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    put it on photobucket and link it.
     
    Loonylion, Mar 13, 2009
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  11. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    and here it is providing the link works

    http://s648.photobucket.com/albums/uu206/lolfasewat/
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 14, 2009
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  12. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    http://s648.photobucket.com/albums/uu206/lolfasewat/

    sorry i think this is the right one
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 14, 2009
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  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    yes, that is a component video cable. You can get devices to convert component to composite, but they're fairly specialised and probably not worth the expense for what you want it for.
     
    Loonylion, Mar 14, 2009
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  14. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    damn so no other way to connect my tv to pc?
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 14, 2009
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  15. TirithRR

    TirithRR Well-Known Member

    You want an Svideo to RCA adapter.

    Like this one:
    http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-S-Video-Composite-Adapter-inches/dp/B0009EXWQQ
    or
    http://www.amazon.com/Hosa-S-Video-Breakout-Adapter-Connector/dp/B000WETER4/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236997528&sr=1-23

    Depending on whether you need female or male RCA, or female or male S-Video.

    One of these came with my video card a few years back, and I used it to send video to my TV from my PC.
     
    TirithRR, Mar 14, 2009
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    that is assuming the jack on the card is an actual S-Video connector, the one on my radeon 9600 pro was a proprietary connector that looked like svideo but wasn't
     
    Loonylion, Mar 14, 2009
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  17. Chrissyboi

    Chrissyboi Well-Known Member

    radeon 9550 is the G card i installed also it has Vid out near the lil plug thingy does that mean that the cable the poster linked would work? have a rough picture of port if u wana look


    http://s648.photobucket.com/albums/uu206/lolfasewat/
     
    Chrissyboi, Mar 22, 2009
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  18. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I'm finding it hard to identify that round connector, it's definitely not S-Video, which looks like [​IMG], but it seems not to have enough pins to be the radeon 9 series video out connector (looks like [​IMG]. How many pins does the connector have (picture looks like 6, but it's not clear enough to be sure)?
     
    Loonylion, Mar 22, 2009
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  19. equitypetey

    equitypetey Well-Known Member

    you could always do what i do and use an s-video to scart like this
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2M-S-VIDEO-SVHS-S-VHS-3-5MM-SCART-PC-TO-TV-AV-CABLE-KIT_W0QQitemZ230329579209QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL?hash=item230329579209&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1690|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

    my 9600 pro had s-video ?
     
    equitypetey, Mar 22, 2009
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  20. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I could get S-video out of the card, but I had to use a special converter cable that came with the card
     
    Loonylion, Mar 22, 2009
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