Ti4200 TV Out ?

Just trying to connect my Ti4200 to my Sony TV. Had bought the card as it
was advertised as S Video out but I have no idea what the hell the socket on
the back of the card is. The manual describes it as having S Video TV out,
but the socket is just *strange*.

It is the same size and shape as S Video but has spaces for 10 pins... WTF
?!

I have two S video cables and neither of them look like that or will connect
to the nVidia card - they have four pins and work very well to connect my
laptop to the same TV (through, surprise !, the S Video socket). :O( .

Anybody have any idea what cable type they are trying to pass of as S Video
? Its weird whatever it is.

"wotsayyou" wrote in message
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Just trying to connect my Ti4200 to my Sony TV. Had bought the card as it
was advertised as S Video out but I have no idea what the hell the socket
on
the back of the card is. The manual describes it as having S Video TV out,
but the socket is just *strange*.

It is the same size and shape as S Video but has spaces for 10 pins... WTF
?!

I have two S video cables and neither of them look like that or will
connect
to the nVidia card - they have four pins and work very well to connect my
laptop to the same TV (through, surprise !, the S Video socket). :O( .

Anybody have any idea what cable type they are trying to pass of as S
Video
? Its weird whatever it is.

The standard cable has 4 pins (chrominance, luminance, and ground for each)
plus a plastic block to help orient the plug right way up. I would try one
of those
cables you have and snap off the plastic block so it'll plug in and see if
it'll work.
It should do.

"Lars-Erik Østerud" .@. wrote in message
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wotsayyou skrev:

Just trying to connect my Ti4200 to my Sony TV. Had bought the card as
it
was advertised as S Video out but I have no idea what the hell the
socket on
the back of the card is. The manual describes it as having S Video TV
out,
but the socket is just *strange*.

The S-video cable I bought (in a standard store in Norway) fits
anyway. I first tried with the enclosed adapter, but once I tried
without (don't remember why) and it still worked like it should.

--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ # 7297605
Win98se, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!


Interesting. How many pins does your cable have ? Does it have a plastic
block about the size of two pins stuck together ?

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"wotsayyou" wrote in message
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Just trying to connect my Ti4200 to my Sony TV. Had bought the card as
it
was advertised as S Video out but I have no idea what the hell the
socket
on
the back of the card is. The manual describes it as having S Video TV
out,
but the socket is just *strange*.

It is the same size and shape as S Video but has spaces for 10 pins...
WTF
?!

I have two S video cables and neither of them look like that or will
connect
to the nVidia card - they have four pins and work very well to connect
my
laptop to the same TV (through, surprise !, the S Video socket). :O( .

Anybody have any idea what cable type they are trying to pass of as S
Video
? Its weird whatever it is.

The standard cable has 4 pins (chrominance, luminance, and ground for
each)
plus a plastic block to help orient the plug right way up. I would try one
of those
cables you have and snap off the plastic block so it'll plug in and see if
it'll work.
It should do.



Might try that - I guess the ten pins could be to be more compatible with
different s video standards - not that I was aware of any but the one.

The laptop S video out has a load of sockets for pins (more than four), but
has a space for the plastic block to go.

Cheers

wotsayyou wrote:
"Sleepy" wrote in message
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"wotsayyou" wrote in message
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Just trying to connect my Ti4200 to my Sony TV. Had bought the card
as it was advertised as S Video out but I have no idea what the
hell the socket on the back of the card is. The manual describes it
as having S Video TV out, but the socket is just *strange*.

It is the same size and shape as S Video but has spaces for 10
pins... WTF ?!

I have two S video cables and neither of them look like that or
will connect to the nVidia card - they have four pins and work very
well to connect my laptop to the same TV (through, surprise !, the
S Video socket). :O( .

Anybody have any idea what cable type they are trying to pass of as
S Video ? Its weird whatever it is.

The standard cable has 4 pins (chrominance, luminance, and ground
for each) plus a plastic block to help orient the plug right way up.
I would try one of those
cables you have and snap off the plastic block so it'll plug in and
see if it'll work.
It should do.



Might try that - I guess the ten pins could be to be more compatible
with different s video standards - not that I was aware of any but
the one.

The laptop S video out has a load of sockets for pins (more than
four), but has a space for the plastic block to go.

Cheers

Are you sure it is not a VIVO port? the other pins for video capture? I
have gone away from the VIVO cards so I can't check but when I had mine it
came with a VIVO cable which had 4 connectors off it. 1 RCA out, 1 Svideo
out, 1 RCA in and 1 SVideo in. That should make about 10 pins worth.

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wotsayyou wrote:
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"wotsayyou" wrote in message
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Just trying to connect my Ti4200 to my Sony TV. Had bought the card
as it was advertised as S Video out but I have no idea what the
hell the socket on the back of the card is. The manual describes it
as having S Video TV out, but the socket is just *strange*.

It is the same size and shape as S Video but has spaces for 10
pins... WTF ?!

I have two S video cables and neither of them look like that or
will connect to the nVidia card - they have four pins and work very
well to connect my laptop to the same TV (through, surprise !, the
S Video socket). :O( .

Anybody have any idea what cable type they are trying to pass of as
S Video ? Its weird whatever it is.

The standard cable has 4 pins (chrominance, luminance, and ground
for each) plus a plastic block to help orient the plug right way up.
I would try one of those
cables you have and snap off the plastic block so it'll plug in and
see if it'll work.
It should do.



Might try that - I guess the ten pins could be to be more compatible
with different s video standards - not that I was aware of any but
the one.

The laptop S video out has a load of sockets for pins (more than
four), but has a space for the plastic block to go.

Cheers

Are you sure it is not a VIVO port? the other pins for video capture?
I
have gone away from the VIVO cards so I can't check but when I had mine it
came with a VIVO cable which had 4 connectors off it. 1 RCA out, 1
Svideo
out, 1 RCA in and 1 SVideo in. That should make about 10 pins worth.




The port is labelled on the card as simply TV out, and in the manual as TV
Out S video, so they seem to think its s video

Cheers

It could be a DIN adapter which needs an adaptor which'll give you both
S-Video and composite outputs from the single plug.

The port is labelled on the card as simply TV out, and in the manual as TV
Out S video, so they seem to think its s video

Cheers

could be a socket for a vivo cable, which splits into several cables.

Check on the manufacturer's web site if it has vivo.
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Hi,

The OP was correct - the TV-out socket on his card is some kind of
special connector depend on the maker of the Ti4200 video card (it
does look like a standard S-Video connector - same size)

On my Asus V8420 Ti4200 the TV-Out socket does look like this:

[ ] ---- small rectangle plastic tab
o o o o -- 1st row of pins
o o o -- 2nd row of pins

There is a small Y cable that one end plug into this "special" socket
and the other 2 end (female) either connect to a regular RCA cable or
regular S-Video cable to TV. So I guess the card out put both RCA &
S-Video video signal at the same time. 5 pins for S-Video signal and
2 pins for RCA signal = total 7 pins.

"Phil" wrote in message
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Hi,

The OP was correct - the TV-out socket on his card is some kind of
special connector depend on the maker of the Ti4200 video card (it
does look like a standard S-Video connector - same size)

On my Asus V8420 Ti4200 the TV-Out socket does look like this:

[ ] ---- small rectangle plastic tab
o o o o -- 1st row of pins
o o o -- 2nd row of pins

There is a small Y cable that one end plug into this "special" socket
and the other 2 end (female) either connect to a regular RCA cable or
regular S-Video cable to TV. So I guess the card out put both RCA &
S-Video video signal at the same time. 5 pins for S-Video signal and
2 pins for RCA signal = total 7 pins.

Ah, thought I was missing something. Any idea where I can pick one of these
up ?


Cheers