On Wed, July 29, 2009 06:53, Phill Coxon wrote: > > I recently joined Quest Healthclub in Ferrymead to improve my fitness > again. > > All of the carido equipment - treadmills, biks etc - have screens with > an ipod av input so I can plug an ipod in and watch videos. I've tested > this with my wife's ipod and it works great. <snip>
I'm replying to the OP since this thread is now so old (!). Since you are looking for suggestions, what you really want is a plug that looks like an iPod, with video and L+R audio input connections. You then hook up the output of your Brand X player to these connections and plug in to the iPod dock. The flaw in this plan is if you have to fake the presence of a real iPod for the dock to 'switch on' and start showing the video and playing the audio. So, in the sure and certain knowledge that something like this must exist already on the internet (after all, I just made it up, but an infinite number of other monkeys have been busily typing in the interim) I offer you this: <http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2007/02/ipod_dock_extender.html> You'll find the pinouts here: http://pinouts.ru/Devices/ipod_pinout.shtml Here's a connector: <http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=633> So, if your Brand X player has the three outputs for video and stereo audio, just hook them up to the three pins that the iPod would usually drive. It seems to me that many media players use a 4-pole 3.5mm plug for these signals, such as this one (be warned, pinouts may vary): <http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/DISTRIBUTED-BY-MCM-24-10471-/24-10471> So maybe your cable is a simple 4-pole jack at one end and iPod dock plug at the other. Anyway, that's my suggestion. Oh, and I'd test it on your own dock first, before you short out the one at the gym. A
