On Sunday 21 May 2006 19:18, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys, hello I have an S-Video out port on my notebook (at least I think that's what it is). I know nothing about this technology, so this might be a very stupid question: no question is stupid Can I connect the S-Video-out to the AV-in on my VCR? I don't have S-Video on the VCR. I have search high and low but cannot find a cable like this, and the shop assistents don't seem to know much. yes, but you will need a converter... Circuit City, Best Buy, E-Bay,... If so, does YaST set up, or do I need to do some hacking? This is on a notebook with ATi x300 graphics, using the fglrx driver (32bit). I bought a four port S-video converter at BestBuy [ the Recoton ] for just a few bucks... plus cables --a few more bucks... The converter takes for inputs and has one output... so you can select from a laptop, dvd1, dvd2, etc... it has push-button switches for selecting which input is desired. I attach my S-video from the laptop to the converter, then route the RCA cables to my VCR-Projector. Then using the [function] F7 key on the laptop I set the output to S-video and whalla... its a great feature.
Hope this helps you. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net