One pitfall not already mentioned is that simply combining the R-G-B and
sync signals coming out of a VGA card won't produce a US standard NTSC signal. A US television signal (NTSC compatible) uses a 15.750 kHz horizontal sweep rate. The lowest VGA resolution (640 X 480) uses a 31.5 kHz sweep. Higher resolutions use higher sweep rates. This scan rate incompatibility may complicate your project. Of course, there are some specialty video cards around that have an NTSC video output, in addition to VGA. Those cards have an on-board scan converter. Good luck, Roger K6XQ |
Roger,
Wouldn't this be be exactly double of NTSC, in which case the TV would see every other frame of the composited VGA? Or, because I am intending to run the card in Linux, could I create a resolution below 640X480? But you may be right, a surplus video card with S-video out would sidestep this problem. The Eternal Squire |
Roger,
Wouldn't this be be exactly double of NTSC, in which case the TV would see every other frame of the composited VGA? Or, because I am intending to run the card in Linux, could I create a resolution below 640X480? But you may be right, a surplus video card with S-video out would sidestep this problem. The Eternal Squire |
Wouldn't this be be exactly double of NTSC, in which case the TV would see every other frame of the composited VGA? If the TV would ignore the sync pulses that arrived too soon, you might get two images, side by side. But that ignores the other complications that I didn't mention: VGA and NTSC don't use the same vertical sweep frequency. And NTSC is an interlaced vertical scan, meaning you get alternating lines of display, rather than a complete image scanned top down. NTSC requires two complete top down scans to get all lines of an image. VGA is non-interlaced. Or, because I am intending to run the card in Linux, could I create a resolution below 640X480? But you may be right, a surplus video card with S-video out would sidestep this problem. The video card has more to do with the VGA scan rates than the operating system. You often see crystal controlled oscillators on video cards so you are locked into what the card manufacturer provides. I can't rule out some flexibility here, but I think a video card with NTSC video output would be the surest way to get this idea to work. Roger |
I looked at the article. Nice try, but I don't have the equipment or
eyesight to work with TSSOP-24 package, nor the money to play with a $300 evaluation board :) The Eternal Squire |
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:41:29 GMT, Doug Smith W9WI
wrote: [snip] http://www.73.com/a/0019.shtml offers a "block converter". (among dozens of other items! It's about 3/4 down the page on the left-hand side, stock #AE047) It's a broadband frequency converter that will convert a US channel 3 RF signal up to US channel 37. I called these bozos to inquire about buying one of these. You get an answering machine but not the courtesy of a call back. The items have also disappeared from their web site inventory. Any other sources? Wes N7WS |
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Gudmundur wrote:
In article . com, says... Hi all, It's me again, attempting yet another mad science project, and I have practically googled the subject to death before thinking of asking this group for help: I am wanting to put video (preferably color but will settle for grayscale) onto a UHF TV channel for inhouse use only. I am considering doing it as follows: 1) Convert output of a VGA card to composite video using resistive combiner (found a few on net). And what magic resistive combiner makes VGA into NTSC??? There is no such thing. There are active models which do this, but if your VGA output is 640X480 or more, then NTSC will make the video suck. NTSC does not have the bandwidth. Yes you can take a properly modulated channel 3 signal, run it into a balanced mixer (well almost any mixer) and add your favorite local oscillator signal and get 2 signals in the uhf band. LO + ch3 and LO - ch3. Good luck. Here's looking at ya or at least the unviewable signal. There are a number of video cards with a NTSC video output in the S-video format. I still have a couple I used in old PCs to drive a Commodore 1701 monitor to trick people. My Commodore 128 was connected to an IBM PC Junior monitor in CGA mode. The look on people's faces was worth the effort. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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