Another TV-out diy guide simple

[PolloLoco]

Originally Posted by dr g

But the adaptor itself won't trigger it?

The adapter itself WILL trigger it. That will tell you before you do anything else - that you have broken pin 4 adequately. Is it possible you bent the other pins and killed your adapter? Otherwise, you may not have broken pin 4 down far enough. You can test by pluggin in your camcorder cable to a tv, and seeing if sound is played through the tv speakers. Play a song in WMP to test.

Edit: Sorry I took so long replying, my computer died last Friday and I had to build a new one.

[dr g]

Originally Posted by PolloLoco

The adapter itself WILL trigger it. That will tell you before you do anything else - that you have broken pin 4 adequately. Is it possible you bent the other pins and killed your adapter? Otherwise, you may not have broken pin 4 down far enough. You can test by pluggin in your camcorder cable to a tv, and seeing if sound is played through the tv speakers. Play a song in WMP to test.

Edit: Sorry I took so long replying, my computer died last Friday and I had to build a new one.

Hmm wouldn't the device register it as headphones then?

[Baffles]

Originally Posted by PolloLoco

The adapter itself WILL trigger it. That will tell you before you do anything else - that you have broken pin 4 adequately. Is it possible you bent the other pins and killed your adapter? Otherwise, you may not have broken pin 4 down far enough. You can test by pluggin in your camcorder cable to a tv, and seeing if sound is played through the tv speakers. Play a song in WMP to test.

Edit: Sorry I took so long replying, my computer died last Friday and I had to build a new one.

When I built mine it didn't register as tvout after breaking pin4. I had to ground out the video sense cable before it did.

[dr g]

Originally Posted by Baffles

When I built mine it didn't register as tvout after breaking pin4. I had to ground out the video sense cable before it did.

Using that same adaptor?

[jimmyz]

Will this work as a 4 prong 3.5mm video cable: http://www.meritline.com/ipod-video-signal-cable2.html
seems pretty cheap!

[OsirisFael]

I have a 2.5 video out cable from an old RCA Lyra Video player(Like a zune)
Can I do this and plug it into the smaller port on the htc adaptor?
Will it still allow me to do this with a 2.5, or must it be a 3.5?

[PolloLoco]

Originally Posted by dr g

Hmm wouldn't the device register it as headphones then?

Yes, that's why I'm proposing the test I did. If it registers as headphones, then you'll still get audio out of the red and white plugs of the camcorder cable.

If you're getting audio out in that way - that means you didn't break the pin as far down as necessary. Provided you didn't break any adjacent pins.

I had that happen to me the first time I tried it with this adapter. I looked closely at the jack in bright light - and saw that the pin needed breaking further down. So I dragged a clothespin deeper down to do so.

I didn't have to do anything else besides break that pin. I've made 2 tv out cables, though the second one was made with a different extusb adapter, twining the wires together. But on the extusb end - all I had to do was break that one pin - I didn't need to ground anything else. That's what most others have done as well.

[PolloLoco]

Originally Posted by OsirisFael

I have a 2.5 video out cable from an old RCA Lyra Video player(Like a zune)
Can I do this and plug it into the smaller port on the htc adaptor?
Will it still allow me to do this with a 2.5, or must it be a 3.5?

You can try it and tell us. I don't think anyone's tryed it because 3.5mm camcorder and ipod cables are common.

[OsirisFael]

Anyone else have terrible quality? Or is it just my 50in HDTV?




Edit:
2.5 video out wire works the same as 3.5.

[Raging Idiot]

Originally Posted by OsirisFael

Anyone else have terrible quality? Or is it just my 50in HDTV?




Edit:
2.5 video out wire works the same as 3.5.

The 2.5 lyra video cable didn't work very well... It seemed to need to be pushed a bit to the side for it to register the connection. Also, the red/yellow swap was still needed on the connection to the TV just like the camcorder video cables others have posted here.