[Skorpius]

Now, I'm not too familiar with S-video products and equipment, so I don't know if there's an easy solution to this.

I noticed that the laptop I've been using has a 7-pin video out jack. I figure that this could be used for an S-Video cable, connecting to my capture card that's installed in my PC. I checked my capture card; it has a 4 pin jack.

First question is that if this jack on the laptop is just that, a jack for an S-Video cable. It has a picture of a monitor and an arrow, seems to me that it's for "video out".

Second question would be if there is some kind of inexpensive adaptor that will take 7-pin plug to 4-pin jack (or vice verse) or special cable that has both a 4-pin and 7-pin plug (either in Y form, or on both ends). Inexpensive would be under $15.

I'd like to be able to record activity on the laptop using a capture program, I think that'd be pretty gnarly if I can get it working some time soon.

I've been looking on Google and found some adaptors and such, but they were around $20, which is a bit much. I did find this and this product, they also has an audio hookup. I might go with one of those if it'd be the cheapest route.

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[Luis]

svideo output on laptop mostly works like a secondary screen output that you can find on propierties -> settings on the display pop menu.

make sure about the capture card settings, i got a 7 pin s video output on my laptop that i plug to my tv to play C&C Generals, using a 4 pin svideo cable, the 7 pin is backwards compatible to the 4 pin svideo cable, that means you dont really need an adaptor since you can plug a 4 pin into the 7 pin svideo output

The only thing that you may got a problem is since svideo works like the secondary window (in most cases) you only will be able to record one of the screen, at least you enable the second monitor as the primary display.

Besides i dont know for what reason hp&compaq got the best svideo FPS (frames per second not first person shotter =P) that i work with.

[Skorpius]

If I clone the display, it should work the way I want it to. Last night, I was able to get the same display on both the laptop, and the PC monitor I plugged into it. Today, it just wouldn't work, and I hade to activate a duelscreen desktop setup in order for the monitor to register.

If things go the way I want them to, I should be able to display the laptop in a capture program using the S-video hookup and capture card.

[Luis]

I had the same problem when i clone the display using svideo, for some reason you can clone it but once, if you want to clone the display again you have to unistall the video driver, unplug the svideo and restart the computer, after that you can clone the display for some time, then the computer will shutdown the svideo output or when you unplug the svideo and plug it back it wont work again, thats why ill suggest to enable the svideo as the second screen and enable the second screen as the primary display.

[Skorpius]

On 2006-04-14 05:17, Luis wrote:
make sure about the capture card settings, i got a 7 pin s video output on my laptop that i plug to my tv to play C&C Generals, using a 4 pin svideo cable, the 7 pin is backwards compatible to the 4 pin svideo cable, that means you dont really need an adaptor since you can plug a 4 pin into the 7 pin svideo output

With Ryna's help, I was able to figure out how to toggle the different display modes, so I know how to clone the display (which is what I want to do, no accidental shutouts of BB). Also, I hope you're right about this 7-pin jack backwards compatibility. This is the only unsure factor in my set-up. I'm getting the necessary cables for the setup, and I'd hate to run into a problem with this.

[Luis]

allright just write me when you test everything i am glad to help

[Skorpius]

Ha, it works great. Only problems I have are with resolution and quality, but I'm sure I'll either figure it out, or it cannot be helped. All I need now is a stero-mini to rca Y cable, and I'm all set.

[Luis]

Did you used the 4 pin cable on the 7 pin output by the way, and about the resolution and quality maybe if you give me the specs on the system i can help you out with that one too

[Skorpius]

Yeah, 4-pin works fine.

The resolution is due to the capture program I'm using, so there's nothing that can be done. Thanks for offering, though.



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[Luis]

You can try adobe premiere pro 1.5 or premiere pro 2.0 using NTSC Standards 29.27 fps, where i work at, they use premire pro for the news packages, and they got a very nice results