DIY S Video Cable (1 Viewer)

[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]

http://www.cablesforless.com/index.a...S&Category=413

 

[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

 

[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?