The bridge between PIN 5 and 11 was described as "The link between 5 (Gnd) and 11 (Mid0) tells your VGA card that your `monitor' is colour". But i will omit it.Not used much anymore, AFAIK. It'll colorize your bios, maybe, but that's about it.
Making the cable as short as possible, is a little bit difficult in my case. My MythTV Box and the tv are in different rooms. The minimal cablelength i need is 8 meters (~ 26 ft). I do this as a due to noise reduction. I know that this i very problematic. To keep the loss as minimal as possible i'm using a special RGB cable. Each of the 5 wires is shielded, this means is coaxial. Additionally the whole cable is also shielded, too. My electronic dealer advertises it as "High Quality Monitorcable. 5x 75 Ohm coaxial single and overall shielding". I did not find any better shielded (and even more expensive ;-) cable for this task. So i'm in hope i will work for me.Not necessarily short, but clean, at least. If it's proper impedance cable, you should be able to get away with it at that length without trouble. Just keep the ends small (no 10cm runs of stripped coax cable inside the connector, etc).
If the signal attenuates some, it'll reduce the brightness a bit is all.
Wow, it's really amazing. I've read so many tutorials about tv-out and the G400. But in no one i've read about this type of cable. I think, if it will work for me, i will write a small howto about it.Now you have me worried... this whole setup is pure speculation on my part. I've done a fair bit with monitors and interlace/hsync/vsync/csync/sync-on-green, but nothing on PAL or SCART. Hopefully it'll work.
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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