What does an S-Video to 3 X RCA cable do?

[numcrun]

It makes no sense to me. Why the 2 (presumably) audio RCA connectors? It's made by Manhattan products. When I hooked it up to my laptop to my TV the picture was black and white.

[Krispy Kritter]

I'm just guessing, but it sounds like you are using a S-Video to component (3 RCA - RGB) converter cable. There is no audio in S-Video or component...the audio is seperate.

[thecoalman]

If you are referring to the end that plugs into your computer it might not specifically be S-Video, the dongles that come with some of the PCI capture cards usually have an end that looks like a S-Video connection presumably to save space. On the other end is RCA and S-Video. The two Audio connectors generally just get passed onto the soundcard internally... or vice versa. What color are the RCA connectors?

As far as it being black and white make sure you have selected the correct TV format for your area in the configuration, NTSC or PAL or whatever it may be.

[numcrun]

Thanks for the replies. They are standard RCA white yellow and red plugs. I have looked at the website for Manhattan, it's not there. I contacted them, they tried to be helpful but seemed clueless. I have seen a similar cable with a 3.5mm audio jack alongside the S-Video plug, which does make sense. But this thing?

[edDV]

Thanks for the replies. They are standard RCA white yellow and red plugs. I have looked at the website for Manhattan, it's not there. I contacted them, they tried to be helpful but seemed clueless. I have seen a similar cable with a 3.5mm audio jack alongside the S-Video plug, which does make sense. But this thing?

S-Video (4pin) can be summed to RCA (2pin Yellow) for video. S-Video has separate luma and chroma.


http://svideo.mattt.org/

Also see this thread
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=327956&highlight=

[numcrun]

Interesting....still none the wiser as to why it has the audio RCA jacks.

[edDV]

You didn't look at the other post.

A cable like this


carries the audio wires for a cable like this


Audio comes from your audio card (or chipset on motherboard).

[edDV]

Interesting....still none the wiser as to why it has the audio RCA jacks.

Demonstrate your wisdom by explaining the job of each wire. There are 4 video and 3 audio wires in and 2 video and 4 audio wires out. Hint two of the audio out are common shields.

[numcrun]

MY cable looks like that picture...but with no audio jack!

[edDV]

MY cable looks like that picture...but with no audio jack!

Give a link to the cable. If it has more than 4 pins it is something other than S-Video.

7 pin Dins are used for computer display cards output with composite added. Some NVidea specific cables carry S-Video+YPbPr on a Din. Some ViVo cards use Dins. I've never heard of standard or near standard Din cable cable carrying S-Video and audio. I think you are looking a custom cable intended for the input side of a tuner card.

[thecoalman]

MY cable looks like that picture...but with no audio jack!

I'll take a wild guess it's what I described, if you open your box and look at the card you will probably find a connector labled audio. If you connect your soundcard to this internally you'll be able to send the audio over the red and white connectors. This simply passes the siganl on, the card really has nothing to do with the sound. If you don't have a internal connection on the card then I'd suggest they simply packaged the wrong cable or didn't make ones that specifically carried video only and they are dummy connectors.

[numcrun]

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[edDV]

Well that is weird. Just 4 pins? Must be for some special application. They probably put L & R audio on the pins normally used for chroma.

It would be possible to put monochrome, left and right over 4 wires (common ground) but it would be from a custom device.

[The1]

It makes no sense to me. Why the 2 (presumably) audio RCA connectors? It's made by Manhattan products. When I hooked it up to my laptop to my TV the picture was black and white.

Looks to me like it's a svideo to Yellow (composite video) red (right channel of stereo audio) and white (left channel of stereo audio).

I will assume you are in New Zealand your tv will be pal system, if you are trying to play a ntsc movie on to a pal tv you will only see it in black and white.

[edDV]

It makes no sense to me. Why the 2 (presumably) audio RCA connectors? It's made by Manhattan products. When I hooked it up to my laptop to my TV the picture was black and white.

Looks to me like it's a svideo to Yellow (composite video) red (right channel of stereo audio) and white (left channel of stereo audio).

I will assume you are in New Zealand your tv will be pal system, if you are trying to play a ntsc movie on to a pal tv you will only see it in black and white.

Who uses a cable like this? Totally alien.