08 December 2002, 22:49 | #1 |
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Amiga RGB to Svhs?
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Can anyone shed some light on what i want to do! I would like to hook an amiga's RGB port up to a SVHS port on a TVcard! I have a CD32 here aswell that I would like to hook up! if it can be done I can have an a1200 and the cd32 on the tvcard and be able to switch between each input! |
08 December 2002, 23:00 | #2 |
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As far as the A1200 goes, that´s an easy one Just buy an Adapter SVHS <> Chinch and use the Composite Video Output of your A1200, works fine with my TVCard here
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08 December 2002, 23:21 | #3 |
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You mean it has a Svhs port and a composite cinch/rca on the other end? i have one here but i think its output only... suppose its worth trying it! if it dont work i can make one or maybe get one from my local tv/radio shoppe!
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I dont know if you can pull an SVHS signal out of the RGB port.. you'd need a Chroma cable and a Luma cable... I dont remember teh Amiga's videoport pinout off teh top of my head so I cannot confirm |
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09 December 2002, 18:32 | #5 |
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Composite Output isn´t as bad as some people tell, and I even don´t recognize any difference to RGB anyway
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09 December 2002, 20:17 | #6 |
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Composite output has serious issues with especially the red color making it blurry.
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09 December 2002, 20:49 | #7 |
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I once had a look for the opposite thingy, splitting composite video or s-video into RGB, and I think while surfing the net for a solution I found various posibilities for what you are searching for.
I will have a look if I have the sites still bookmarked or downloaded some schematics. Converting RGB into s-video is for sure much easier and cheaper to do than splitting video into RGB ! If you can live with composite video than you can also simply get an A-520 modulator, which has a composite output, too ( at least the PAL versions ) |
09 December 2002, 21:13 | #8 |
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Ovedoc - If you can find those schematics that would be great!
if i can have both the amiga and the cd32 or Video recorder hooked up that would solve my problem... the tv card i have only has these inputs: Composite SVHS RF Sound output its a Pinnacle PCTV Rave! |
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Electro: there you go, Dr. Commodore (a.k.a. Overdoc) always has the answer |
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10 December 2002, 22:42 | #10 |
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Just checking to see if anyone has found any info... i have searched the net and found a few interesting sites but nothing that actually shows what i want to build its looking like it cant be done! suppose i could use the rf ouput on one the amiga's but its so bad it will do my head in
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10 December 2002, 23:15 | #11 |
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Sorry for getting back so late...
I checked my bookmarks but it seems I only kept the one that have to do with video to RGB splitting. Nevertheless, I googled some interesting things for you: Check this site if you want to buy such a thingy: http://www.jrok.com/hardware/RGB-FAQ.html ...or have a look here: http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/c...a2palntsc.html if you want to build one yourself. Or have a look here for more, although most are dead links, I am afraid: http://links.epanorama.net/links/vid...gbsvideocvideo There even exists a company which has a site called http://www.rgbtosvideo.com/ But seriously, I think this thing will be very expensive even when you build one yourself ! On the other hand there isn't very much quality difference between a s-video and a composite video output ! So, I would just feed the A-1200's composite video-out ( not the RF-out !! ) to the TV cards video-in. This should give at least a much better picture than the RF way. Hope this helps. Maybe you can find more ? Try googling for somthing like +rgb+video+converter or +rgb+pal+converter or similar. |
10 December 2002, 23:40 | #12 |
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No worrys m8! many thanx for that info i can buy a unit pre-made from the links you sent!
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12 December 2002, 06:07 | #13 |
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Well, the CD32 already has S-Video. But, for the A1200, you can probably get the correct chroma/luma signals off the chips. I know it's possible because they combine these for the composite output. If you can find some chip pinouts it should be easy to do. Otherwise, you can build a S-Video output pretty easily out of an old A520 box (see below).
http://www.starnet.com.au/davem/overclock/A520.html |
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