Re: OT:VGA to S-Video



Adrian wrote:

> I had one a few years ago that came with a Matrox G400 video card, I've
> never tried with plain VGA. Maybe I'll dig it out sometime and give it a
> go.


I can confirm that Matrox still use this method.

These days it comes out of the DVI connector, through an adaptor to
vga, then through another to composite/s-vid.

They also use a scheme on their triplehead cards where two vga
connections make their way out of the card via one DVI connector.

Alex

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