Ingress said:
Well the S-video(out) port of my laptop I have hooked my "S-Video to RCA"
connector to, is called a tv-out I guess. I have VGA and HDMI out too, but
not the cables right now. So using s-video which is a 7-pin output not 4-pin.
The manual of my laptop which is a Dell XPS M1530 says to connect using
S-video to component/composite video adapter and from that a RCA to RCA
connector. I guess that is similar with S-video to RCA connector unless you
correct me.
The picture on the web page, shows a minidin with 7 pins and alignment
tab.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1530?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh
It looks to me, like this. (One picture here, is the mirror image
of the other, and it may depend on whether you're looking at the
cable or the computer end, as to which view is right.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pseudo_miniDIN-7_Diagram.png
There are more details here, indicating the pinout may not be
standardized. The adapter provided with your Dell computer may be
the best choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DIN_connector
If you use the software provided with the video interface, you
may be able to see whether one or two "monitors" are present.
Sometimes, on a 75 ohm composite interface, a user has to
select "force detection", when the loading of the TV is
not detected. In this thread, you can see the amount of
floundering you have to do, to get a TV to work. Nvidia has
both the "new" and the "classic" control panel, and the new
one is austere compared to the old one.
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t61279.html
On a laptop, there can be a hot key you can press, to select
the driving of an alternate display (check your manual). Judging
by the description of the computer in your case, there are multiple
output connectors, so I don't know whether using that hot key would
be more useful than using a control panel or not.
Quality wise, HDMI or VGA are higher bandwidth options. Depending
on what the TV supports, either one of those may give better
results. After having tried composite here, I wasn't impressed
with the results.
Paul