DanielKellmii

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make a S Video cable? I need about 40 feet to set up a front projector. I am trying to get 480p from a DVD player. This should work fine, right?

Ryan Leemhuis

can't you only get progressive from component??

Leo Kerr

In my understanding, yes, you need to ship component, which is much easier to build than S...

I'd not recommend building an S cable - not with the 4-pin mini-DIN end.

If, on the other hand, both ends support the dual-BNC approach to S-Video, by all means.. (you still won't get the 480p that way, though.)

Leo

DanielKellmii

The problem I am running into is that the projector only has a 15pin RGB input, a single RCA input and S-Video. I tried to get the RGB inpu to work with an adaptor, but I kept getting some "software protection" type message.

Ryan Leemhuis

there are component to D-SUB connectors out there. Have you tried that?

DanielKellmii

Nope. I tried to use a radio shack device that was $99 and it did nothing.

Ryan Leemhuis

Ted Drain

Here's a write up I did awhile back w/ some instructions for making an S-Video cable. Takes some patience but it isn't too difficult.

http://www.geocities.com/teddrain/diy_cables/index.html

Ted Drain

Vince Bray

you can make a good svideo cable using category 5 wire used for networking. I used shielded but I think you could get away with unshielded depending on whether it's exposed to close sources of interference. Just get a dayton svideo cable from parts express, they have ends that unscrew. Desolder the original wire and use pairs of the cat 5 to replace them. I had a 40 foot run of this in the old days and it was very good. Certainly don't spend alot on this, it's just s-video anyway.

I would encourage you to find out if there's another way to get the progressive signal over. What pj is it and have you asked over on avsforum?