• What is this cable for?
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I just found a cable in my graphics card box. It's an S-Video male that splits to 3 RCA females - One red, one green, and one blue. The S-video end plugs into the graphics card, and I can't figure out what it could go to, or what its use on the graphics card is, because it can't plug into a TV.
Well, if it came in the box, it's probably a breakout cable, most likely it's s-video to composite video.
Well, to be honest, I'm really not savvy around video inputs and outputs, so you'll need to explain a bit better than composite video. What does it go into my graphics card for?
To be an output, though a low resolution one.
Do you mean for the graphics card to be the output? That's what doesn't make sense, since the RCA's are female.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPbPr[/url] This should clarify things [editline]11:46PM[/editline] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_In_Video_Out[/url] And this also
It's an S-Video to RCA cable... as in, your graphics card can output through S-Video, and that changes it to RCA.
It's not actually s-video. It just uses a [B]similar[/B] connector. You can't connect a regular s-video device to it. IIRC [QUOTE=Lego399;23668090]To be an output, though a low resolution one.[/QUOTE] Component supports 1080p
[QUOTE]It's an S-Video to RCA cable[/QUOTE] Is it? Wouldn't it be S video to Component? RCA to me means Red Yellow White..
[QUOTE=Mokkan13;23671025]Is it? Wouldn't it be S video to Component? RCA to me means Red Yellow White..[/QUOTE] RCA is the type of connector. Not the amount, colour, or use.
All it does is enable you to use Component cables to a S-Video input. It's just changing the format, from Component to S-Video.
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