S-video to composite convertor

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swordfish1

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hi guys,

I installed my new Gigabyte Geforce VGA cards (one with VIVO and one with TV out only), and I realised that they don't come with composite video out connector!!! this quite sucks!

my receiver is 4 years old now and 4 years ago most receivers were not doing down/up conversion, so whatever comes through composite, goes out of composite only, so is the s-video.

So you see my problem, I need both composite and s-video, do you know where I can get some reasonably priced splitter from s-video to s-video + composite, or at least convertor from s-video to composite?

thanks
 
swordfish1 said:
I believe you mean where? In JHB, near Northcliff.
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Yeah sorry about they I was in a rush. If you want to pay shipping i'll send you the S-video and the composite video\out free of charge.
 
wow thanks

just tell me is it a convertor or like Y type splitter, just want to know?

I don't mind paying shipping, but I will check first in few more shops around (I checked today 2-3) and if I can't find one, I will ask you to ship then.

thanks a million
 
swordfish1 said:
wow thanks

just tell me is it a convertor or like Y type splitter, just want to know?

I don't mind paying shipping, but I will check first in few more shops around (I checked today 2-3) and if I can't find one, I will ask you to ship then.

thanks a million
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Yea its a Y splitter
 
cool thanks, because one guy in one of the shops I asked for that, was telling me that this things are very complicated :) I am sure I have seen one in the past, but never needed one before so never bought one ...
 
nvidia graphics cards switch from composite to svideo via software by autodetecting which connection is being used.

svideo is 4 pins...for composite the top two pins are used (on nvidia cards)
so the card cannot do svideo+composite simultaneuosly.

for ati radeon cards, they only ever output svideo. The cable that ships with radeons has one capacitor and one resistor embedded into it to convert the svideo into a composite signal. If your radeon has a composite connector onboard, that means the svideo to composite conversion it taking place on the pcb, which is something the board vendor decided to do.

vis: nvidia can output pure composite or pure svideo, using one 4 pin connector (to get composite, you get a little convertor cable that takes the top two pins and runs them to the composite connector of the cable)
WHEREAS
ati can only output svideo, but the cable that ships with ati cards is a very simple svideo-->composite convertor.

neither card can output a svideo AND composite signal. If you have a Y-splitter, then one of the outputs will end up in b+w (or non-existent), plus you will have an overall drop in brightness as you are trying to feed two displays.
 
werner said:
nvidia graphics cards switch from composite to svideo via software by autodetecting which connection is being used.

svideo is 4 pins...for composite the top two pins are used (on nvidia cards)
so the card cannot do svideo+composite simultaneuosly.

for ati radeon cards, they only ever output svideo. The cable that ships with radeons has one capacitor and one resistor embedded into it to convert the svideo into a composite signal. If your radeon has a composite connector onboard, that means the svideo to composite conversion it taking place on the pcb, which is something the board vendor decided to do.

vis: nvidia can output pure composite or pure svideo, using one 4 pin connector (to get composite, you get a little convertor cable that takes the top two pins and runs them to the composite connector of the cable)
WHEREAS
ati can only output svideo, but the cable that ships with ati cards is a very simple svideo-->composite convertor.

neither card can output a svideo AND composite signal. If you have a Y-splitter, then one of the outputs will end up in b+w (or non-existent), plus you will have an overall drop in brightness as you are trying to feed two displays.
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thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! I really appreciata people that know what they are talking about :)

well, I didn't know that you can't have both simultaneosly, but anyway the new gigabyte cards come with s-video output only and I need composite video, so converter will do the job, Y cable even better as then I can connect one s-video and one composite one, even though I can't watch them at the same time.

thanks a lot!
 
my point was actually:

if you have a Y-cable, make sure it is for ati or for nvidia, depending on which one you are planning to use. They are not interchangeable as they dont achieve the same thing.
 
werner said:
my point was actually:

if you have a Y-cable, make sure it is for ati or for nvidia, depending on which one you are planning to use. They are not interchangeable as they dont achieve the same thing.
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yes bit the Y cable will be connected to the proper s-video out on the little video box that comes with the card, not to the card itself, so I expect that there should be a standard svideo-to-composite Y cable or converter which has nothing to do with the card itself and should be usable outside the computer area, so I am looking for such generic converter, rather than card specific one that I can plug directly into the card.
 
Ok, this is all very interesting and all, but can anyone tell me a shop I can go into and pick one up off the shelf (converter, not Y-splitter)

I'm in Randburg

Ta :)
 
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