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Originally Posted by homer3
denverpilot - going from S-video to composite, (single RCA jack). Just assumed it would work. It sure makes connecting at setup time of travel a lot easier.
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Fair enough. S-video to Composite only takes a capacitor to make a cable and mix the separate luminosity and color signals back together. That's the cheap and dirty way that most "adapters" use nowadays anyway.
Snagged from:
http://www.infocellar.com/Video/pc-to-tv.htm
(Just a random site Google'd to find a circuit diagram for you.)
Maybe the cable isn't assembled correctly or has a bad capacitor or a solder bridge in the cable somewhere.
Some adapter cables tend not to like being driven long distances depending on wire gauge and value of the capacitor. I assume you're running from the back of the trailer all the way to the Tow Vehicle cab? How long is the cable run?
Really should work. Hmm.
The "right" way was rarely seen in a stand-alone converter and s-video is so out of style these days, even all the links I could find to kits that used ICs made to do that job correctly and get rid of odd color artifacts, are dead.
Been a long time since I've had to do S-Video. Last devices I saw using it at home was an ancient DVD recorder, and at work it was common in really old videoconferencing gear when I had to support the legacy/truly ancient stuff at Polycom many years ago.
We were well past the S-Video days by then and mostly HDMI or DVI, and I left there getting close to a decade ago. Composite and S-Video by modern standards are pretty ugly video.
As you can see in that old article linked above, a very large range of capacitors work to do that mixing trick. If you have an electronics junk box or a friend who does, maybe they could make you another adapter just to see if yours is busted.
Seems odd that it wouldn't work.