Does S-Video carry sound?

[Portend]

I know I should have asked this on my last post, but, does audio come through the s-video cable or do I have to run a seperate cable just for sound? To my recelection sound comes through when you plug in a camcorder.

 

[Sword]

S-video only carry video...

To have sound you need another cable.

 

[CyberSax]

Actually, if your TV supports component video, I'd recommend that you use that. It's much better than S-Video. As for sound, the best route is usually a digital coaxial cable (in other words, any kind of RCA aka Audio/Video cable).

 

[Portend]

is there any problem with running s-video and audio cable side by side through a wall? interference etc?

 

[Workin']

You'll need to run separate cables for s-video and the sound. No worries about interference. You can run them right next to each other or even twist the 2 cables into a braid if you want to.

 

[Unbornchicken]

S-video = video only.

i would recommend (if this is possible for you) that you run S-video and a toslink (optical digital sound). that combination would be (IMO) the best.

if you cant do that, do s-video and normal R/L audio RCAs

 

[Workin']

Hah! You know how much a long toslink cable costs?

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

CyberSax is dead wrong. About composite being better than S-video, I mean.

S-Video is waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy sharper and richer in colour than composite. Why do you think they used it to replace composite when they created the S-video cassete standard?

As for the digital audio coaxial cable, yes use it when you're hooking up to a 5.1 reciever.

 

[fr]

Donny, CyberSax was talking about component connectors, not composite.

There's a difference. Component is better than s-video.

 

[Workin']

Yeah Donnyboy, read the post. And just for clarification, there is no S-video video cassette standard. There is S-VHS and SuperBeta, and machines using those standards often have s-video outputs.

And, all high-end (and some low- and medium-priced) DVD players have composite, s-video, and component video outputs, and component video is clearly superior to s-video, and s-video is clearly superior to composite.

But as far as CyberSax is concerned, I'm not aware of any video card with component video out.