On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:51:05PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > I'm not sure whether C Scheeder is right, but it seems highly likely. Christoph is right. The buyable cables operate the wrong direction for our purposes. > Different cards need diffeernt types of cable. For example ATI and > Matrox cards can both output the necessary composite sync, but they need > slightly diffeernt wiring. Most other cards can't output composite sync > so you need a circuit to combine them. with my cable described here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=742945#post742945 you have a multi purpose solution because it does not take into account special features of some special graphics cards. I never understood why people rely on things like on-chip composite sync. You easily can do that externally by two Rs and one T. I successfully use the VGA2SCART cable above for nVidia, ATI Radeon and Intel graphics. Of course driver initializes separate sync for all three. > If you do go ahead and build a cable I'd recommend cutting one end off > an existing VGA cable and using a multimeter to work out which wire is that's how I do that. But take care to grab a cable with VGA Pin 9 wired. There are many cables out there with this pin not being connected. Cheers Thomas _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
