Problem with tv-out on my video card

[bendecko]

I recently bought a cheap Absolute Multimedia outragous tnt2 ultra video card which is suppose to have a tv out, specifically s-video out, but the card doesn't have a s-video output. It has the monitor output, and some output similar to a ps-mouse or keyboard input. I was told that I might have to buy a convertor, to convert it from this Composition output to either s-video or rca. But I can't contact this company(which I would not recommend) and don't know where to get this piece. Does anyone know how to get this to work. Please help out this newcomer.

 

[frostgiant]

S-Video looks nearly identical to a PS2 mouse port. I am sure thats what you are looking at, you just don't know it!

 

[AC]

yeah, s-video is definitely the ps2-like port, unless it is some proprietary port.

are you sure you were looking for a card with s-video out?

 

[bendecko]

Thanks for the response, but I know the difference between the two cords. And they are similar. I tried to plug in a s-video in to it, but it doesn't fit. The inside of s-video cable has 4 wires and a plastic piece(hard to explain) and the plug in for my vid card needs 6 wires and a plastic piece. Also the s-video plastic piece is a rectangle which is horizontly longer, and the vid card needs a plastic piece vertically longer. (I can't explain this very well) I actually ripped the plastic piece out of a s-video cable to make it fit and it still did not work.

 

[evanichka]

maybe that connector is something that would connect to a tv as in there should be one more cable in the box of the vid card or you have to buy seperately from the manufacturer? Hm... this is truly odd.