Fwd: Re: Hauppage with camera

[John A. Greenfield]

Bob,

Do you know which camera they are using? I have had no problems using
s-video cables with my Sony TR7000 or Sony pan-tilt cameras, but they
didn't come with s-video cables so I bought standard ones. They work great
even with 100' S-video cables.


 On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Robert Olson wrote:

> FYI.
> 
> >
> >What I've heard is that the S-Video cable is kinda funky.  S-Video cable
> >are supposed to have separate luma and chroma lines, but this cable either
> >merges the two when connecting to the camera, or sends the composite
> >(luma+chroma) signal only to the luma line on the connector. Since luma
> >and chroma are always at different frequencies, they don't collide.
> >
> >However, the various drivers have to do something to the bt8x8 (GPIO?)
> >configuration to make it understand that the S-Video port is really
> >getting a composite signal.  Once this is done (I think some of the
> >drivers have this correct), you'll properly get a color signal.
> >
> >In the mean-time get a RCA cable and connect the camera to the card via
> >that, using the S-Video cable that came with it for nothing but power.
> >That's what I've been doing, and though it's ugly, it works.
> >

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