2006-10-25, 02:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 2006-10-25, 02:34 PM by Ted the Penguin.)
Ted the Penguin Wrote:my guess is that you dont actually have a converter but that the plug on your card has extra pins that are to be used with that cable to pass component video signals. if you look close up does the plug have 4 or 7 pins? you can find standard pinouts for svideo online, or better compare the end of your cable to a normal svideo cable, do they look the same?
TomV Wrote:I saw a philips box that converts from svideo to component to composite, all ways. They had it at walmart, dont know if itll support your pc, but might. Also, my video card came with the cable to convert s-video to component, one end s-vid, and the three components on the other end, probably just some capacitors in there between.
and for good measure
normal svideo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video#Connector_2
a video card with 7 pins in the mini-DIN jack (the 3 in the middle are for component video signals)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage....%2D+Retail
video card svideo with component