Atmosfear Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 (edited) Hi, just wanted to notice you, that you should be able to get proper Composite or S-Video TV-Out using Apples DVI to Video Adapter sold for about 20 EUR. The adapter says "requires Mac mini or Power Mac G5" but it works fine on my MacBook Pro 17" aswell as my 10.4.8 Hackintosh w/Natit Radeon X1900 XT. The adapter is detected as second monitor "NTSC/PAL" and offers these interlaced Resolutions in both PAL and NTSC-Refreshrates: 640x480 VGA 720x480 4:3 SD NTSC 720x576 4:3 SD PAL 768x576 Square-Pixel SD PAL 800x600 SVGA 856x480 16:9 SD NTSC 1024x576 16:9 SD PAL 1024x768 XGA 1280x720 HD 720p I suspect this will also work fine with Dual-Screen capable Nvidia cards using Natit and also with GMA900/950 if a PCIe DVI-Connector-Card is installed. The output quality is pretty good and I'll be using it as control monitor out for Final Cut Pro HD (or for watching movies ;-)). Although my device is labled for PAL it supports NTSC as well, I guess it just uses PAL as default when used as bootup screen. Edit: Seems not to work with Nvidia Cards for now ... Have Fun, Atmos Edited February 8, 2007 by Atmosfear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Cool. Thanks for the info! Anyone else try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizzopro Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 I have but I have an ATI X1600 Pro so I cant get dual dispaly to work I get mirroring but not dual display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooZberg Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Great news! I think I need to get one of those to try this out (To bad it is such a expensive cable, but I wouldn't hurt to give apple some support :pirate2: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmosfear Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 Well it's not just the cable, it inlcudes the electronics and logic to convert from DVI signal to analog out, so I think the price is quite ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooZberg Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Got myself one of those cables in the local apple store today, and now, FINALLY, tv-out works like a charm (However, ntsc dident work at all, pal works just great, but when I tried ntsc the system just freezes, and i had to remove com.apple.windowserver.plist to get my system running again, weird..) And I also want to say, thank you Atmosfear for this tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterav Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I can only find a miniDVI cable to tvout, is there another one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooZberg Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Yes, this one http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/uk...LearnMore=M9267 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Has anyone tried this with an NVidia dual-dvi (or other) capable card???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japhex Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Can someone try dvi+this adapter and check for dual screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippyretard Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 The topic should be changed to "TV Out-Alternative" as it is not a solution for the mentioned cards. This can be very confusing to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Plus that Apple's site only mentions using the device together with ATI cards... do we know that it works with NViDIA cards??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmosfear Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 @skippyretard: ching the topic would make it much unfriendlier for searching (IMHO) @tomtefar: AFAIK this Device is advertised for G5 Mac and Mac Mini (the Mini-DVI-version), with the first having NVIDIA card and the latter one GMA950 (at least the intel mini). As the device even works in windows, I dought it's hardware specific, as long as the card supports the needed graphics modes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 This seems to indicate otherwise??? Anyone actually try it with an NVIDIA card? Which one?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I've got confirmation from a local Mac store (where they did try it) that the adaptor does not work with the 7300GT in the Mac Pro. Anyone tried on a hack with NVIDIA?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Hello, i've buyed a DVI -> Svideo adapter and tried with my geforce and no lucky. I have a Geforce 6600GT PCIx... product id 0x0140 has 2 DVI port and one TV-OUT my firse monitor is connected through a DVI -> VGA adapter working, but the SVIDEO adapter is not working... I've tried all the Natit drivers with no success... still got 'no monitor connected' on the monitors info... In windows XP using the adapter the geforce driver recognize it as a 'PAL/NTSC Monitor' but can't display correctly... appears as a timing problem... anyone has some ideas? Many thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delish Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Apple DVI-PAL adapter worked fine for me too with my asus x1900xt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Interesting. Anyone know of any successes using either GMA900 or ATI X1800 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Well, I just ordered one.... And received it. Works great with my MBP. However, I rather stupidly forgot my hackintosh doesnt have DVI, only a VGA port. I have now ordered a DVI-I to VGA adapter (supposedly to use a monitor which has DVI-I only ports with a VGA output). This should, in theory, work, because (presumably) the Apple DVI to Video adapter only uses the analog pins. I really hope it does... :S Will keep you all posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBryan Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I just want to point out that this will only work for certain Radeon cards such as the x1900xt. The part from Apple is not a converter, it merely activates a switch on the cards to use the pin-outs. On normal DVI outs you'll get garbled {censored}, as I did with my x1600xt. And that x1600xt has a great s-video out that doesn't work at all with OSX (as far as I know...) Boo-urns. Don't waste your $30. Speaking of which, anyone want to by an Apple MiniDV/DVI to NTSC/PAL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panik Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 nVidia 7900 GTO I have dual DVI working with Natit Dual 0.02 Internal s-video does NOT work I purchased one of these adapters and tried it with the dual DVI. No luck. The problem I suspect is that some cards only produce DVI-I signals therefore getting a DVI-A is near impossible. If anyone has this working I would love to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japhex Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Works great. advanced options as overscan compensation for full 4:3 image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mass_core Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Interesting. Anyone know of any successes using either GMA900 or ATI X1800 ? I've got gma 945 , got the cable but it wasn't working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddy Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Anyone tried this with an x1800 XT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knytet Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 ok... i have just built a new computer on the p5k-e motherboard with a 2.2 dual core processor and 4gb ram, for graphics i use the geforce 7300gt and my old fx5200 card. Everything workes fine with vanilla kernel and 10.5.2 update but something strange is happening when i try to get the s-video to work. i acctually got it to work in mirror mode with changeable resolution on both my tv and my monitor but when i restart or try to start up with the s-video cord plugged in it all goes bananas! than i have to remove NVinject witch i used and reinstall the whole thing.. very strange i think.. any1 have any ideas? plz help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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