S-Video (TVOUT) on Radeon 9800 card

[Spam Butterfly]

If you buy a Radeon 9800 Pro card over the counter to fit to your G5 it has a DVI output, a VGA ouput and an S-Video output. Has anyone used the S-video output at all?

I tried plugging mine into a projector today but got no signal at all.

I understand factory fitted Radeon cards have an ADI connector and a VGA connector.

If this S-Video is working it could prove very handy.

Does it require any additional setup within OS10.3 and is there a way of toggling which display it will show?

Unfortunately there is very little info in the Radeon manual....

Cheers,

Rob

The S-Video port does indeed work. It's easier and cheaper to convert a video signal like S-Video to SDI than a data signal like XGA.

http://www.miranda.com/product.php?i=137&l=1

Miranda make a range of such useful widgets as this.

Spam Butterfly

[samsc]

The S-Video port does indeed work. It's easier and cheaper to convert a video signal like S-Video to SDI than a data signal like XGA.

http://www.miranda.com/product.php?i=137&l=1

Miranda make a range of such useful widgets as this.

Spam Butterfly

i use the ones from cobalt digital.
http://www.cobaltdigital.com/products.htm
they ship with universal psu's although they dont accept credit card payments.

http://www.cobaltdigital.com/


www.aja.com
also do convertors

[RobF]

Very interesting. Will experiment with the S-video out. Shame they don't put two on it!

[samsc]

in the latest version of the ati radeon displays control panel, you can turn on the s-video output permanently.