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Has anyone got a link or made their own S-video cable?
DrewKaree:
The standard Cat5 stranded is almost useless for this application, IIRC. It's the shielded or....sleep is setting in....whatever the heck makes this particular Cat5 special, that makes it useful for stuff.
I'm gonna be pulling wire through an existing house for somebody, and the guy's one of those fussy freaks who's always asking you "why are you using that instead of x" when you know the guy doesn't know ANYTHING about the answer you're giving him.
I could tell him "because grapes that are grown on Mars have half the radioactive content of a Pop Tart" and the only reason he'd question the answer is because he's heard the words "grapes", "Mars", and "Pop Tart" ::)
Barkuti:
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RGBHV over shielded Cat 5 success!
That's the thread that got me into building my own Sub D-15 -> SCART RGB connector, using shielded Cat 5e (FTP cable, Foil screened Twisted Pair). I made it 16,5 feet long and the video quality is jawdropping. I have a shielded audio cable running in paralell with it. You can notice a slight audio signal loss through all that lenght, but the video is excellent. ;D
Doing S-video is even easier, only 2 signals plus grounds.
Cheers
DrewKaree:
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RGBHV over shielded Cat 5 success!
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Those are the ones I came across too in my searches. The page I found started with a VGA pinout and somewhere in the links within that site were mo betta examples. I may be relegated to foundering through it via AVS. :-\
Barkuti:
C'mon, making a cable is a very easy task. Connector pinouts are easily googled. You have plenty of wires in a FTP cable for your needs.
If your video source generates both S-video and composite signal, you can carry both in your FTP cable. No need for any kind of converter. Use all remaining spare wires as grounds, and wire all grounds together (shielding included). So, you could wire chroma, luma and composite signals, and yet have the shielding plus 5 wires as ground. Should work like a charm.
Cheers :)
cholin:
One big thing though, make sure you keep the wires inside the cat 5 twisted as long as you can. They retain their independance from noise better when they're twisted together....
Other than that, how hard can it be to make an S-video cable? Buy a 6" male - male connector, cut 'er in half, attach your new wires and let em run through the house....
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