Mini DisplayPort to S-Video , any possibility ?

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Several USB S-video adapters exist by http://www.elgato.com/
They usually bring S-Video into your Mac. The real question is if any send S-Video out of USB.

Does your TV have DVI or HDMI?

Combining adapters should in theory work. However, I've tried it on a different series of Macs and had difficulty. You are more likely to get a digital to digital signal to work than digital to analog, as the analog has to resolve the resolution differences between displays.

a brody wrote:
Does your TV have DVI or HDMI?

Would it be able by HDMI?

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You will need a miniDP->VGA adapter and then a VGA->S-Video Converter (not adapter). The convrters can be had for less than $100, but it is an added expense that we should not have to pay. Unfortunately DisplayPort does not support composite or s_video signals.

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DVI to HDMI adapters are pretty easy to find, and yes, that should work just fine. VGA gets weirder because many VGA displays maximize at 1024 x 768. DVI can handle 1080p pretty easily if you have that kind of TV. 1080i TVs on the other hand often don't have the resolution to give you outside of TV safe area for your computer's display, and won't show your menubar or Dock. Software such as SwitchResX or DisplayConfigX will be necessary in that event.

One thing to remember about HDCP, certain copy-protected videos will not display over that adapter. Which ones those are, I don't know. There has been some fuss about that across the net.

christoph86 wrote:
Wouldn´t it also be possible to use a Mini DP to DVI + Apple DVI to S-Video Adapter ?

No, sorry, that won't work, because the miniDP->DVI uses DVD-D (digital) but the DVD->S-Video adapter requires the analog signals of DVD-I.

I'm told by one of my fellow frequent posters that HDCP to VGA to VGA to S-Video will work for DVDs, but not Apple protected content on their iTunes store.

I connected to Composite Video and S-Video as described in:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1813335&tstart=15

I'm banging my head on the wall here. Only a few months ago I bought the Canopus ADVC 55 for video capture. I decided against the ADVC 110 because the only difference seemed to be that the 110 included analogue video out, which I didn't need because I had the various adaptors for the MacBook to output to VGA, S-video/composite and DVI.

I've just bought the MacBook Pro because the new MacBook doesn't have Firewire, only to find now that I cannot output S-video at all!

Oh well, at least my main requirement is video capture or I'd be having to replace the 55 with the 110 already.

I know it is an extra adapter, but you can use the miniDP->VGA adapter and then get a VGA->S-Video/Composite adapter/converter box. I think there are some that are USB powered and relatively small, for under $50. It's not the ideal solution for sure, but it works.