Paint Shop Pro Tutorials made easy using WebCamMax and Medhi plugin filters Free

Last night I went about searching for screen capture/webcam software to make a Paint Shop Pro tutorial with.
Of course I have screen capture software, I must have 10 different programs but none do both and none of them record the sound properly.
In the past I would have to make the video, then play it back and record a sound track while watching it and then use Format Factory to convert the video and add the sound track to it as a layer.
Well I finally found a decent program called WebCamMax that does it all in one straight shot. The vid format is mp4 which is a bonus too. It creates fantastic screen captures for recording events, processes (I haven't tried recording movies with it yet) , it also adds some interesting effects to the webcam side. I don't webcam at all but I do have 4 grandsons that I might like to record some silly stuff for. As far as that goes, there are 100's of nifty little tricks you can use with your webcam for chat or just recording a film type greeting with. Backgrounds ranging from being on a stage to appear in a mirror or other just plain silly things. There are also effects to give you a fat head (I know I'm gonna like that one), silly hats and cartoon type things on the screen with you. I think you can even make your own and import them too.

This is my first shot run. I know the sound isn't up loud enough, but it was my first attempt and I had to test it. Plus it was 3:30 AM and my Lovely Daughter didn't need me making huge noise to mess up her final hours of sleep before going to school.

This is just a basic hand tinting method made using Medhi's Eraser Genuine filter and Paint Shop Pro 7.04. It is a beginners tut and therefore if you know anything about filters and layers you are probably way beyond the scope of this lesson.

Still I share it with you anyway.



Format Factory is 100% Free and by far the best vidio/audio conversion program out there [LINK]
Medhi offers 28 free filters for use with Adobe, Jasc, Corel Products as well as Irfanview, it also is 100% Free [LINK]
WebCamMax can be gotten from here [LINK], Note, if you do buy it buy soon because they are offering a 50% discount "$24.95" for a short period of time. I will delete that last note when I see that the offer has ended
Irfanview is not used in this topic, but I let the name slip and they deserve credit. Irfanview is also free and by far it is the best image viewing, cataloging, converting, web page building, screensaver making, program ever written. For more info on it go to the top of this page and type it into my search field and read my other 2 or 3 posts on it. One will even show you how to make your own Karaoke files using it, another shows how to publish web pages and another is just a features overview. [LINK]

My playin...

Some playin with pixels here...

Right click on pic and select "Open in new tab" or new window to see full sized.

Started here...

Then here...

Then comes the fun stuff...

Trouble making a video...Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

This is not a great version. It's a screen cap of a high definition of one I'm trying to make.

I "borrowed" this song because it's beautiful, but not so much to make a music vid with.

I am trying to make a template with layers, frames and transitions in high definition. I'm working on an AMD AM2, 3 Ghz with 4 Gb ram, and it should be more than enough, but it isn't. Every time I attempt to join the vid together the programs crash. My settings are 640 X 480 "4X3 format" @ 30 fps. In all cases I re-size everything to those dimensions too before I import my work into the video editor. I also use the same settings for transitions in animated gif and convert those to Divx format.

Something is wrong and some advice would be appreciated [email:FunkingDave@gmail.com], if you have any to offer.

I'm using Paint Shop pro X3 and X4, also Pennacle Studio 14, VideoSpin, DebugMode Wax 2.0 and trying out a few others.

My ambition is to make a full length film introducing highlights of current social trends and changes in government, in order to introduce others to access to find more information on a wide range of topics that I have found to be very interesting.

I hope you enjoy this video and I hope Cyndi Lauper doesn't get offended over me using it for this stage of my studying. I will search for her name and send her a link to this if I can.

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

Vote NO on H.R.2164!

I received an email asking that I support H.R. 2164.
I am not sure when the last time was that an email pissed me off so much.
It also asked that I ask my friends to support it... "pfft"
Below is a screen cap of the email and my reply. Below that there will be a link for you to join me in opposing this yourself, with that I'll post my reasons for being against it.

Click on pic to view full sized please?

Here is the petition that I signed and sent in myself (my statement is at the bottom, the rest was written on the  form by someone else).

August 9, 2011

Dear Representative Smith:
Dear Senator Nelson:
Dear Senator Johanns:

I urge you to oppose H.R.2164, the so-called "Legal Workforce Act."

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a victory for states, allowing them to require employers to use E-Verify or lose their business licenses.

Congress had years to make the E-Verify program mandatory to stop companies from intentionally hiring illegal aliens, but they refused to act, causing honest employers to suffer and criminal businesses to thrive.

Suddenly, after the Supreme Court has ruled, Congress wants to get into the game -- and for no good purpose. A vote for H.R.2164 will earn you the enmity of both liberals and conservatives.

Do the right thing. Vote NO on H.R.2164!

Those above are not my reasons, mine are mentioned below.

"I oppose any form of electronic eligibility verification for employment requirement. I also oppose the laws that would restrict any persons ability to earn what he or she needs to survive. Laws like this are meant to cause only harm and even though they sprinkle up the bill with a few sweet ideas and offer up a few pluses. When it's passed it becomes as abused as all of the others have been.I can see this law being used to restrict the type of employment opportunities for even natural citizens and being used to filter out the classes and further define the limits of advancement for all. H.R. 2164 is not a law intended to protect. It is only a law of governing and we have too many of those types of laws already in place , being abused right now!"

Sincerely,

Mr. David Rice
[my street] St
[my city/state]

[Here is that Bill in PDF format, for you to read it yourself]

Dylan's Dinosaur

Dylans Dinosaur Movie

 

Kristians Realm

Some quick-links to Kristian's stuff Walt...

Kristian's Realm 

 [Link to his realm]

This is the older "first" version of Kristians Game Stop..

Wavivu wakati katika chumba cha kuchoka

[here is the link to that page]

This one has a funny name and I'm not gonna tell anyone what it means. I will give a few hints though...

• It's foreign and it does mean something
• I built it as an experiment and it's supposed to represent a folder on my hard drive.
• I was hoping Kristian would find a little interest in learning about some other languages (considering that most of the English language has been stolen from other older ones anyway).
• It's in Swahili.
• Final hint is Google Translate, LOL

 Kristian's Route 66 Page

[Link to page]

This is a games page, with some animations added. I made the animated gifs for Kristian and want to teach him how to do it too.
The theme is Americana. Not because I'm patriotic or anything like that. It's only about the art work.

K r i s t i a n ' s   S t e p p e n W o l f   G a m e s   P a g e .

[Link to page]

This is a series game. It's supposed to play as a graduational thing where you have to use thought and decision making processes to reach final outcomes in the levels.
"I think he'll love it.."

Dylan's Game Corner

[Link here] 

Mario Brothers and Sonic Section

[Link to Dylan's Mario Brothers Section]

[Link to Circus Maximus]

That's about it for those. I can't seem to get the server to accept any edits on those pages, but I can add more.
Below are 2 movies added by request from Dylan.
Tell Kristian I'll add what he wants for him too and soon when I move these sites (the addresses will stay the same, just on a better server), I'll fix the scripts to make the pages better...

These movies are good, but I named them different names than the original. I did this to keep them off the search engines cause I'm a jerk like that sometimes Bro...

No more Fred, or Freddy aint here no more... 

 Dylan's Dragons...

Peace Bro and Blessings, Give both my grandsons big hugs from PaPa and tell yer wife I still love her...

Yer Funk-in-law Dave...

Happy Birthday Kim

♥.·:*¨¨*:·.Happy Birthday Kim.·:*¨¨*:·.♥

Happy birthday Kim, here are some interesting facts about today and others who share it with you as a birthday. 


After reading some of the names I found Charles the Bald, (Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks), Miyamoto Musashi, (Legendary Samurai warrior, artist, and author of The Book of Five Rings), and Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, (Grand Duchess of Tuscany). I noticed that the traits of those born on this day to be determaned, successful and leadership and as you will see next, talented, bold and attractive.
Also born on this day are Actress Ashley Olsen (not my favorite, still remarkable though), Mary-Kate too (cause they are twins I guess), Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer, Hannah Storm, Malcolm McDowell, Leeann Tweeden, and Kat Dennings.

June 13th is also noted to as The Day of Feasts by some and mentioned in The Calender of Saints.

"The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the feast day of said saint. The system arose from the early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths, or birth into heaven, and is thus referred to in Latin as dies natalis ("day of birth")."

Personal note on birthdays:
I have heard birthdays called anniversaries and on some note I guess they are, but that's not how I see them. I see them as being a point of acheivement, like a goal post.
When someone says "Look at Timmy, he's getting so big. He just turned ten today", I wanna throw my piece of cake and party hat at em and yell out "No he didn't ya' dummy. He just finished bein ten ya bugger. That year's all done now an Tim, not Timmy is in his 11th year now".

I look at the birthday as the celebration of a year completed, a year of being blessed with that person being accomplished and the beginning a new one.

Happy Birthday Kim. Count the ones completed as effort well done and begin this brand new one with faith, hopes, confidence and smiles. Make the most of it and get the most out of it you can ♥ ♥ ♥

((((((Hug and Smiles))))))))

Dave

G-Roc-Radio & The Smoke Zone have to be moved soon from my Space!!!

I had to shut the Zone down.

I guess I shoulda talked more about it first, but I made three phone calls, sent three messages VIA the internet, got nothing. Later though in a reply to a message that went something like this...

"Look Bro, I don't know what's going on. I tried calling three times and sent three messages and still nothing" I got the reply "Ha-haa, I'll call you in a few..."

I didn't know a few minutes from a few days, or a few weeks from a few months or a few years, but I waited ten days from the calender page and got nothing. After that though, through mix-n-match on other ongoing dialog between myself and other people he did petition me on several occasions for me to contact him, with the lame excuse that he had lost my number.

I replied with the search results for "David+Rice+Farnam+Nebraska+Phone+Number" and that link provided him with my name, phone number and all the information he requested as the first result on the pagge,. along with the other 24 results below it. He didn't want to use it. Instead he asked me again...

I'm thinkin to myself "For Real?"

"Does this guy even know me anymore???"

So I finally replied "Call you in a few Bro..."

I donno, but I really don't wanna call him in a few days, don't want him to call me in a few days, don't wanna give a shit anymore and I think it's best left far behind me.

Here's a link to the page I shut down, just because I searched and searched for just the right script to use and I can't show it here.

 The Smoke-Zone Smoked out...

The link to that script is [HERE] the name is mf2fm.com  and I hope you go and check this guys work out. It's all shared for free and it adds a nice touch to a page. I used this one because... well, just because, but there are hearts, romance, art deco  and many others to pick from.

My family here...

Little bit of braggin, but they are awesome just the same...

[Full Movie] Crumb (1994)

Crumb (1994)

Storyline;
"This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind. As stream-of-consciousness images incessantly flow forth from the tip of his pen, biting social satire is revealed, often along with a disturbing and haunting vision of Crumb's own betes noires and inadequacies. As his acid-trip induced images flicker across our own retinas, we gain a little insight into this complex and highly creative individual. "

Written by Tad Dibbern

Funks Note:  

"If ever I was inspired by anyone at the age of nine it all began with Robert Crumb. He didn't draw or paint sexy,but he drew and painted cool and made it sexy. He took sloppy moments and gave them life and in my eyes his beauty was in defining the world I had come to see rather than the Ivory Snow reproduction everyone else seemed to want to sell me...." 

"Yea, it's all Funky" 

Posted from my site [here]

Money as debt.

Money as debt 2nd Edition.

The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter movie [full]

The Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter

-1970-

Another one from my site. [click here] to view it there.

Some of the truth about Nebraska's policies..(How they Steal children out of families)

Former HHS worker blows whistle on HHS tactics

This picture is mine. It was NOT included in the news article.

 

by Mark Young
The North Platte Telegraph

Published: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:57 AM CST

NORTH PLATTE - Tawnie Stewart was a caseworker for the state Child Protective Service but left the organization when, she claims, she was told to lie in court about one of her cases.

"That's when I quit," said Stewart, a caseworker for Health and Human Services from 1996-97. "I didn't like anything about it. I was supposed to be working for these mothers to help them get their children back, but I was being told to work against them. I worked with a case plan supervisor who wasn't familiar with cases, but would tell me what to put in it. But the last straw was when I was told I would have to lie on the stand."

Now Stewart is working with a mother who is locked in a battle with the Nebraska Health and Human Service Department to get her children back.

May Lynn Branson, a mother of two children ages 8 and 9, is locked in a dispute to determine if a foster mother in Broken Bow should get guardianship of Branson's children - a decision that could determine if Branson is allowed to see her children in the future.

Branson is supposed to have nightly telephone calls to her children, but phone records indicate the calls are completed only about six times per month. Branson said she is told by the foster mother that she has cell phone issues in her area, yet a check with the phone company indicates full coverage where the foster mom lives. The cell phone company states that no such issues should exist.

When the calls do go through, the foster mother listens on speakerphone. In one recorded conversation, Branson is heard to ask, "You have me on speakerphone again?" at which time the foster mother's voice rings out, "If you don't like, we can cut you off."

Child Protective Services came into Branson's life after a bruise was spotted on one of the children's legs at school. Investigators showed up at her doorstep and Branson, who has a mental disability, agreed to cooperate with requests to temporarily hand over her children.

Stewart said this is a standard practice.

"That's where they get you," said Stewart. "That's their tactics. They are told to tell parents like May Lynn that if they cooperate, things will go better, if not they will file criminal charges. Most people would be afraid at that point and the voluntary cooperation sounds easier, but in fact, it's better if you force them to pursue criminal actions. That way, they at least have to prove what they are saying. Otherwise, they can do what they want."

Workers trained to pressure parents, says whistleblower

Stewart said as part of her initial training, she was told, "Parents don't know their rights and you should take advantage of that by walking all over them," she said.

The Telegraph contacted the Health and Human Services Communications and Legislative Services Director Kathie Osterman for a response to Branson's case. Osterman was provided with these same details and after saying HHS would respond to what they could, did not meet a one-week deadline to provide a response.

Like Brandi Knutson's case (detailed in Saturday's story on the front page of the Telegraph), Branson was given a case plan to follow, but each time the goals of the case plan were met, the goals were changed, according to copies of the case plans. Branson has dealt with 10 different caseworkers over the last several months.

The children too have had a lack of stability, living with different foster families in different cities.

The final case plan written by Branson's current caseworker in December states, "Fair progress is being made to alleviate the causes of out-of-home placement."

Yet in the next paragraph, the caseworker recommends adoption.

Branson admits she needs to improve her living conditions. She said she is making progress with Stewart's help. She wants an opportunity to reunite with her daughters and fears a decision that could take them from her life until they turn 18.

Stewart has offered to become a guardian for the children and wants Branson to live with her and her husband. Branson's outcome will be determined by the court, but whether she has custody or not is the issue for Stewart, who said Branson certainly hasn't done anything to lose a relationship with her children.

"I've known these kids and May Lynn for a long time," said Stewart. "I have a relationship with all of them. She doesn't deserve to not have a relationship with her children. This has to stop. She hasn't done anything to deserve to have those ties to her children broken."

NOTES: All of the above was copied from The Lexington Clipper Herald article posted [here] from a link on Yahoo News, which I found here. I am sharing this article by posting it unaltered based on that permission to share is  presumed because of the 9 buttons provided on the page and the 1 email link offering even easier methods to share it with. Anything posted below this a statement is from me and it is mine. I do not offer full sharing privileges for my own writing. You may share this page to be viewed by any method you desire as long as it is either on this page and viewed in its entirety or if it is emailed in full body context, with nothing added to or removed from this text portion. You may not break apart or separate any portion of this to assemble into another text body for any reason without prior authorization being granted from me before doing so.

My comments:

This is not me gloating or bragging that what I have been saying to has finally come out to light. I actually would have preferred that the situation had never come to the point that the D.H.H.S. or our local government or our legal system would feel the need to deceive us or manipulate our families using our children and with slander and with lies.

I'm sure that there was no great grandfather who planed for things to come to this by starting a political policy agenda generations ago. I am saying though that it has come to this and it did start generations ago. Part of the evolution process of any society is the ability to separate from the wrongs within it, to address that that needs to be dealt with as no longer working or as has been abused to the point that it now is causing us harm. I am very sure that the  core of the regulations began with noble intentions and that at the time they were a step in the right direction towards helping families find help, but then came the feeding frenzy. What was once good and designed to provide for those in actual need of was now being used by those with no need for it and those people sought ways to bring those policies further toward their desires to the point that they had begun now to use that safety net designed to help those in need instead into a trap that they now had full control of and now through their molestation of the process it has become a burden to all, including them. That is why I believe that they now feel that they must defend their tactics and usage of these policies with lies and corruption.

I am not happy over have seen any aspect of this because to me and in my head this too is a weight. I have the impulse to look away and ignore all of the traps and scandals, but I also have the God given responsibilities to educate the next generation in the best way available to me. In attempting to do so I am not allowed to simply look away, odd thing too is I am also not allowed to fight it. Any capitulation or involvement in these affairs would make me a willing partner to it in one form or another and guilt is non-proportional, there is no slightly gray area. If you have been a part of something, you yourself have chosen to become a part of a whole, in doing that you share the guilt of every other consenting partner to it. All I can do is teach from it, use the reflection of it as an example of it's function and the cause of it's outcome, with the hope that someone will be less inclined to play a future part in this kind of B.S. later on and eventually the situation will become exposed enough to the point that those who listened and learned will now have a say in a new beginning and an end to the old.

I know I was rambling, that's just me I guess.

Anyway, I have been sharing on this subject for about 6 years now in specific to The State of Nebraska, call it 32+ years if you want to include other related area's like The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I began my challenges with the birth of my son David King Rice around and about the year 1979 in a court battle seeking only visitation privileges with him, but through the lies and manipulations of the legal system and Department of Welfare System in Massachusetts I had to learn how to fight back against the Probate Court and the Social Workers and found no help in doing so. After being threatened with jail and other methods of discouragements I continued to fight to see my son and in the end I won full custody of him from both the Welfare System and his mother. The results of this were that I was the very first father to gain custody of a child out of wedlock in that state and following that court case tens of thousands of other fathers followed suit and based on my results received parental sharing rights that before my case were not even considered an option.

The reason I shared that with you is not as you would think it was intended. I also wanted to point out that during this whole process I was offered to join up with the already pending legal proceedings and work with them within that system of functioning reasonment. I opted out of that 100%, I told them that I would have no part in their priorly influenced actions, that this was my action to and not my reaction to anything they had already initiated. Still they offered and asked and pleaded, even to the point that they offered me a winning side of their situation. I laughed and told them to keep their stuff, because they owned it. After saying that I proved it too and that is how I think things need to be done. Meeting anything half way is also accepting half of the responsibilities for the situation. Accept None, unless you want to yourself become one within it.

For 6 years here in Nebraska I have shared a few things on here about the D.H.H.S. and policies. Here are some other links for you to look at if you are interested...

 The film on the Boys Town situation, scandal and cover-up.

After looking at the others, I decided that they are not related directly, but look around because there are others on here somewhere that are...

Nebraska's for sale again!

The following is some of the art work that I've been doing lately and posted on FaceBook. Following will be my explanation as to why.

Above are some of the variations featuring both the puppet and  goddess named (I suppose) MeMe. I'm actually not so sure of her name but the terms "Me, Me, Me..." and "Oh Me-me, pick Me. Me..." are used so commonly in everything out here, that I do think they have already gone so far past the point of expression that they are now more similar to phrases of worship.

MeMe is in there for that reason, next is the puppet and the depth. I tried to create the illusion of layers and depth and that's where the puppet relates. he looks forward (in his own eyes) towards MeMe, but actually, she's in the depths herself.

The several variations are because I still couldn't get this to bring out my expressed desires for it. I wanted everything to go deep into darkness, but I'm not that good yet. I might try it with oil if I can ever scrounge up the money for a new set.

The other picture is the King of Nebraska, the NebrasCow. He's the male gender form of MeMe, and he has his puppets too. The one to the left and behind him is his thoughtless, vague form of a henchman. Watching and listening, not even to what he hears but to watch the audiences reaction to what's being said. His other objective is to make sure the audience feels intimidated enough to if not agree and applaud to at least dare not to object openly on any of the matters presented.

Why would I be thinking this way?

Long story but here's part of it.

My son just won some major achievement awards and even though that should be only a time of honor and satisfaction. It wasn't taken that way by me. Other things came up in my mind, like the the pathway that he had to travel to get to this point and I am not so glad about those aspects of it.

I'll start out quick and try to remain quick about it, still some framework is needed here.

Out of respect for my son Only, no names will be used used in this,

My son was home schooled just about all of his life back in New England. As I began to get seriously ill I decided to move out here mostly because I thought they needed decent and honest schools to attend (I refused to allow them to go in New England over the racial issues, gangs and drugs). Upon entering school here he skipped either one or two grade levels, the differences between the two would be based on which two school districts you were comparing against out of four or\sixteen different combination scenarios. When he entered he had no experience in the school settings or the social aspects of it. He excelled anyway and in his first semester he began to climb very quickly up in the academics portion of his school work. In many ways he was well above those he attended classes with, if not all of them.

He worked hard and should have graduated with honors, everyone thought he had and that includes the schools own staff members, but that was stolen from him. My way of looking at it though is that Nebraska Sold Out, or a part of Nebraska was sold in that effort.

Talking with my sister the other night I mentioned that to her and we both agreed that it was more than a little cheap-assed punk for them to steal even points from a student, but when you live that way then that way is part of your living. The conversation with her on that topic ended with "Well now he did it even though they ripped him off and the funny thing is they settled too low on this one. They shoulda milked him some more because winnin a little start-up race for next to nothin is nothing like hittin the trifecta. They shoulda kept that bettin winda open for the real stuff...". Then we both agreed that they had done some good after all, they lost pride, he gained pride. They also taught him a little more about themselves and in doing so they have have shown him how good it really can feel not to be anything like them...

That can was opened up and another one. My daughter also moved out here and she was just turned seven years old. She had never in her life been out of the house much and had no experience with being ripped off, taken advantage of or socially abused either, but stupid me put her in that school we call "Society" out here.

Her first real taste of it was at church. At church they had a Soap-Box Derby race and the whole town was planning on going, so we talked her into participating. She used her big brothers car after prepping it and cleaning it up and she won. She did win but they would have no part of that. They made her race again later and she won again in the finalists round. Still she was not allowed to win against a "local", so they made her try again and she won again! Still the best they would allow her was a lie at tying at first place. Which, come to find out is actually less than not racing at all. Because as it stands now still is her participation in the (so-called) event is completed disregarded.

End of the topic is I don't care much for winning a battle with idiots or losing one. I sometimes think that those morons that go back to a battle field for any reason after the fightin is done have their own special version of a mental disorder.

I am glad my son succeeded, but I always knew he would. I'm glad he did it without them, even though they stole from him, but I wish he never had needed to be involved with them like that in the first place.

Last note, every time I look at Nebraska that depth grows deeper, the darkness surrounding it more dark and the puppets more and more like each-other...

Convert SVID out to RCA input or maybe even cheat VGA iut into TV/IN

The following will be some of the search related content that I found on this topic and then some of my notes on my experiences in using some of these techniques

 First are the notes on pins, identifications and diagrams and others notes...

S-Video (Most common and will fit in my 9 pin XFX Nvidea PCIe2 card)

Not to be confused with the video tape format S-VHS.

S-Video
A standard 4-pin S-Video cable connector, with each signal pin paired with its own ground pin.
Type	Analog video connector
Specifications
Hot pluggable	Yes
External	Yes
Video signal	NTSC, PAL, or SECAM video
Pins	4 or 7
Connector	Mini-DIN connector
Pin out
Looking at the female connector
Pin 1	GND	Ground (Y)
Pin 2	GND	Ground (C)
Pin 3	Y	Intensity (Luminance)
Pin 4	C	Color (Chrominance)

Separate Video,^[1] more commonly known as S-Video, also called Y/C, and sometimes incorrectly ^[2] referred to as S-VHS or Super Video,^[3] is an analog video transmission scheme, in which video information is encoded on two channels: luma (luminance, intensity) and chroma (color). This is in contrast with lower-quality composite video, in which video information is encoded on one channel, and higher-quality component video, in which video information is encoded on three channels. S-Video carries standard definition video (typically at 480i or 576i resolution), but does not carry audio on the same cable.
The 4-pin mini-DIN connector (shown at right) is the most common of several S-Video connector types. Other S-Video connector variants include 7-pin locking "dub" connectors used on many professional S-VHS machines, and dual "Y" and "C" BNC connectors, often used for S-Video patch bays. Early Y/C video monitors often used RCA connectors that were switchable between Y/C and composite video input. Though the connectors are different, the Y/C signals for all types are compatible.

7-pin mini-DIN

A 7-pin mini-DIN socket.

7 pin plug diagram

This is a non standard 7-pin mini-DIN connectors (this variant is called "7P"). These are used on computer equipment (PCs). A 7-pin socket accepts and is pin compatible with standard 4-pin S-video plug^[5]. The three extra may be used to supply composite (CVBS) or an RGB or YPbPr video signal, or an I²C interface. The pin out usage varies between manufacturers^[5]. In some implementations, the remaining pin needs to be grounded to enable the composite output (or disable the S-video output on some of those implementations).

9-pin Video In/Video Out

These are used on graphics systems that feature the ability to input video as well as output it. Again, there is no standardisation between manufacturers as to which pin does what (also given that there 2 known variants of the connector in use). As can be seen from the diagram above, although the S-Video signals are available on the corresponding pins, neither variant of the connector will accept an unmodified 4-pin S-video plug, though they can be made to fit by removing the key from the plug. In this latter case, it becomes all too easy to misalign the plug when inserting it with consequent damage to the small pins.

9-pin (Used in the following)

• Sega Mega Drive II / 32X - This is larger than a standard mini-DIN 9.

• Hypercom T7 Eftpos terminal
• Nvidia GForce S-Video 9 pin to YPbPr (YCbCr)
• Sigma EM8300 Video Card
• Cambridge Soundworks DTT2500 Digital
• Speed-link Medusa Amplifier
• Creative Inspire T7700 Speakers - Wired control unit connector.
• Creative X-fi elite pro unit - Cable to connect to the speakers for control.
• Creative Speaker mini din 9p pinout
• Philips A5.600 Seismic Power 600 - Center speaker controller unit and 5.1 audio connector.
• Harman/Kardon 395 3pc Speaker Set - Cable from subwoofer to the satellites for volume control.
• Various Sharp multimedia projectors RS-232C (DIN9B TO DB9 supplied with the project

Or a "Do-it-yerself" S-video to composite video adapter

Thanx Tomi Engdahl <Tomi.Engdahl@iki.fi> for the easy's on the fix

This simple adapter can be used to convert Y/C video (S-video) to a composite video. This adapter is useful in cases where your video output device has only S-video output but your signal source accepts only composite video input. This circuit works with both PAL and NTSC video standards.

Y-ground------------------+
                          +---------- RCA/composite ground
C-ground------------------+

Y-------------------------+
                          +--------- RCA/composite video
C------------||-----------+
            470pF

This circuit can be quite easily build inside a the S-video connector case if a physically small size 470 pF (ceramic) capacitor is used. Larger capacitor values will also work, but cause picture to become "softer". The voltage rating of capacitor can be 10V or more.
This circuit works in practice quite well even though the circuit operation is not ideal. This means that impedances and signal levels not matched exactly right, but near enough to work accetably. The picture quality you get from this circuit is is good, but not as good as with best possible composite video output circuitry.
Here is the pinout of the S-video connector shown from the end with the FEMALE PINS (picture is a view on the equipment back/front panel):

1   Y ground
2   C ground
3   Y (luminance+sync)
4   C (crominance)

What if my PC graphics card has a 7-pin S-video connector instead of 4-pin ?

The four pin S-video connector as shown above is the standard connector for carrying S-video. Those seven pin connectors seen on some PC graphics cards are non-standard connectors for carrying S-video. The use of the pins on those seven pin connectors is not standardized and can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. (For some strange reasons some manufacturers in PC industry just keep constanly breaking the industry standars and create lots of confuzion to users when doing so).
Generally the four pins on those 7-pin connectors on the same places as the standard four pin S-video connector have practcly always the same fuctionality as those pins in S-video connector. The other three pins can have then some extra signals which are not part of S-video (usually some pins of those carry composite video and some control signals, but the use of those three extra pins vary quite much). So if you encounter 7 pin connector for S-video, then forget the three center pins... just use the four on the standard positions. The circuit shoudl work with those connectors as well.

Can the circuit used in other way ?

If you try to connect the circuit in opposite way so that you have a composite video signal which yoiu want to feed to S-video input then you might wonder would this circuit work also in that way. The answer is that the circuit sort of work also in this way. If you connect a comoisute video source to a S-video input of your TV using this circuit, you will get a full color picture on your TV screen. The downside of this is that the picture quality will be worse than if you were using the real composite vidoe input of your TV. The reason for this is that after the circuit the color information is still in the brighness signal, you you see some interference on the screen caused by color subcarrier which gets to the screen. This all means that you can use this circuit as last change in situations where you don't have a composite video input. The picture quality is degraded, but propably still usable for some not so demanding applications. A real well working solution would be much more complicated than this circuit.

The Skinny on VGA (15)

From HwB

VGA=Video Graphics Adapter or Video Graphics Array
Videotype: Analogue.

Contents 1 Pinout 1.1 ID 2 See also 3 Contributions

Pinout

15 PIN HIGHDENSITY D-SUB FEMALE at the videocard.

15 PIN HIGHDENSITY D-SUB MALE at the monitor cable.

Pin	Name	Dir	Description	Impedance/Level
1	RED		Red Video	75 Ω, 0.7 V p-p
2	GREEN		Green Video	75 Ω, 0.7 V p-p
3	BLUE		Blue Video	75 Ω, 0.7 V p-p
4	ID2		Monitor ID Bit 2
5	GND		Ground
6	RGND		Red Ground
7	GGND		Green Ground
8	BGND		Blue Ground
9	KEY	-	Key (No pin)
10	SGND		Sync Ground
11	ID0		Monitor ID Bit 0
12	ID1 or SDA		Monitor ID Bit 1
13	HSYNC or CSYNC		Horizontal Sync (or Composite Sync)
14	VSYNC		Vertical Sync
15	ID3 or SCL		Monitor ID Bit 3

Note: Direction is Computer relative Monitor.

ID

Bit				Description
3	2	1	0
n/a	n/c	n/c	n/c	No monitor connected
n/a	n/c	n/c	GND	Mono monitor which does not sopport 1024x768
n/a	n/c	GND	n/c	Color monitor which does not support 1024x768
n/a	GND	GND	n/c	Color monitor which supports 1024x768

See also...

VGA (VESA DDC)

From HwB

VGA=Video Graphics Adapter or Video Graphics Array
VESA=Video Electronics Standards Association
DDC=Display Data Channel

Contents 1 Pinout 1.1 VESA DPMS power saving 1.2 DDC 1.2.1 DDC1 1.2.2 DDC2B 1.2.3 DDC2B+ 1.2.4 DDC2AB/DDC2B+ 1.2.5 DDC/CI (formerly DDC2Bi) 1.3 Extended Display Identification Data 1.3.1 EDID 1.0/1.1 1.3.2 E-EDID 2 Links 3 Contributions 4 Source

Pinout

Videotype: Analogue.

15 PIN HIGHDENSITY D-SUB FEMALE at the videocard.

15 PIN HIGHDENSITY D-SUB MALE at the monitor cable.

Pin	Name	Dir	Description	Impedance/Level
1	RED		Red Video	75 Ω, 0.7 V p-p
2	GREEN		Green Video	75 Ω, 0.7 V p-p
3	BLUE		Blue Video	75 Ω, 0.7 V p-p
4	RES	-	Reserved
5	GND		Ground
6	RGND		Red Ground
7	GGND		Green Ground
8	BGND		Blue Ground
9	+5V		+5 VDC
10	SGND		Sync Ground
11	ID0		Monitor ID Bit 0 (optional)
12	SDA		DDC Serial Data Line
13	HSYNC or CSYNC		Horizontal Sync (or Composite Sync)
14	VSYNC		Vertical Sync
15	SCL		DDC Data Clock Line

Note: Direction is Computer relative Monitor.

VESA DPMS power saving

DPMS = Device Power Management Signalling

Signal	Power save mode
	Normal	Standby	Supspended	Off
13 HSYNC	On	Off	On	Off
14 VSYNC	On	On	Off	Off
Power level	100%	80%	<30W	<8W

DDC

DDC = Display Data Channel

Name	Pins		Protocol
	SDA	SCL
DDC1	12	14	Unidirection protocol (uses VSYNC (14) as clock)
DDC2B		15	I²C
DDC2B+			I²C (Bidirectional)
DDC2AB			I²C (ACCESS.bus)
DDC/CI			I²C

Note: DDC2 was never implemented

DDC1

DDC1 is a quite simple protocol. Unidirectional communication from the monitor to the video card. VSYNC (14) is used as clock.

DDC2B

Based on Philips I²C protocol. Video card is the master and monitor is always slave. Monitor has address 0xA0 (for write mode) and 0xA1 (for read mode). Control of display is not possible only exchange of information.

DDC2B+

Modification to allow bidirectional communication, point to point. Both video card and monitor can be master and slave. Control of display is possible.

DDC2AB/DDC2B+

Monitors that implement DDC2AB/DDC2B+ are full featured ACCESS.bus devices. Multiple devices on one bus. ACCESS.bus is based on Philips I²C protocol. Default address for monitor is 0x6e and 0x50 for video card (host). Extra information is transmitted thru VDIF (VESA Video Display Information Format).

DDC/CI (formerly DDC2Bi)

DDC/CI = Display Data Channel Command Interface E-DDC (VESA Enhanced Extended Display Data Channel Standard) is the physical standard.

Extended Display Identification Data

EDID = Extended Display Identification Data

EDID 1.0/1.1

The EDID information consists of 128 bytes of monitor data.
Additional blocks of 128 bytes can be stored in EDID extension blocks (aka VDIF) after the initial EDID block. These blocks contain addtional detailed timing information. There is a flag within the EDID to indicate the existence of these blocks. VDIF is not currently used in our systems.

Version	Revision	Year	Standard
1	0	1994	DDC
1	1	1996	EDID Standard v2
1	2	1997	EDID Standard v3
2	0	1997	EDID Standard v3 (Discouraged for future designs)
1	3	1999	E-EDID Rel A

Offset	Name		Description
00h-07h	Header		00h, FFh, FFh, FFh, FFh, FFh, FFh, 00h
08h-09h	Vendor/Product ID	Manufacturer ID	provided by Microsoft
0Ah-0Bh		Product ID	assigned by manufacturer
0Ch-0Fh	Serial number
10h	Manufacturing date	Week	1-54
11h		Year	Year-1990 (must be >3)
12h	EDID verion	Version	Current version 1
13h		Revision	Current revision 3
14h	Basic Display Parameters	Video Input Definition	bit 7: 0=analog, 1=digital if bit 7 is digital: bit 0: 1=DFP 1.x compatible if bit 7 is analog: bit 6-5: video level 00=0.7, 0.3, 01=0.714, 0.286, 10=1, .4 11=0.7, 0 bit 4: blank-to-black setup bit 3: separate syncs bit 2: composite sync bit 1: sync on green bit 0: serration vsync
15h		Width	in cm, 0 for projectors
16h		Height	in cm, 0 for projectors
17h		Gamma
18h		Power Management support	bit 7: standby bit 6: suspend bit 5: active-off/low power bit 4-3: display type. 00=monochrome, 01=RGB colour, 10=non RGB multicolour, 11=undefined bit 2: standard colour space (sRGB) bit 1: preferred timing mode bit 0: default GTF supported

Note: Little-endian

E-EDID

E-EDID = Enhanced Extended Display Identification Data Standard Up to 32kB of data.

Links

• ACCESS.bus Specifications v3.0
• The I²C-Bus Specification v2.1 by Philips Semiconductors

Contributions

• Joakim Ögren

Source

• Various sources
• ePanorama.net: VGA analogue display connector
• Hynix HMS9xC7132/HMS9xC7134 datasheet
• Notes on Video Conversion by Samuel M. Goldwasser
• How ffbconfig and other graphic card configuration tools determine the monitor resolution capability
• VESA PlugTest April 2003: Enhanced DDC and EDID by Jack Hosek (NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display)

Replies:

the s-vid cable has four wires all together.
2 of the wires carry the video info....namely...
chrominance (C) wire and brightness over the luminance (Y) wire. the other 2 are ground.
the rca has all the info on the single signal in the middle.
Y/C video is another term for s-video which means super video.

you will have to tie the 2 svid signal wires together to the middle pin of the rca. the other two you tie and put to the outer case connection which is the ground on the rca plug.

if you are doing the join in the middle of the cable, then i suggest the following. having done the signals together, cover them properly with insulation tape for example. then wrap a bit of foil around it and the do the ground but dont bother to sheild it from the foil. let it rest on the foil and then cover that with tape. the foil will ground out over the signal join and provide back the shielding it had in the original cable.you can then shield both again but that will be more tricky. buying the adaptor would be best.

here is a site that gives the pinout of the svid cable and other video types too.
http://www.acl.co.uk/pinouts.htm

bear in mind this.
s-video is a higher bandwidth video standard. normally, video runs at 250 lines where svhs ran at 400 lines. the s-vid cable was a premium for this standard.
the rca composite cable is of lower bandwidth. the true quality being determined by how good the reciever will seperate the signals.
you will experience a loss using rca compared to s-vid as the rca standard has higher compression.

hope this helps you out.

2) one more thing......if your movies are downloaded and are in mpeg4 format, ie xvid or divx, then expect a much darker and unsatisfactory image on the tv set.
the mpeg format is a compressed format and is already compressed. putting it to tv, compresses it again and the quality falls off even more. dont be surprised if you get disappointed by the quality.
this is worse when they are screeners....lol...yu canny see nuthin man..... ;D
mpeg2 from dvd's are ok. less compression than mpeg4. 8)

A YouTube Vid on the Do-it-yerself option...

Now my stuff on the matter...

About 8 years ago I did buy the $20 Radio Shack adapter and got no results out of trying it out on several different VGA cards to several different televisions and even trying running through vid in/out ports on VCR's and DVD players, cable boxes etc...


Later along the way I bought a GForce (I think it was a 256 MB Detonator) card from Walmart or Staples (some local retailer), just because it came with an SVid to RCA converter cable and it could be returned easily if I got no results.


That cable worked great and I still have it and it still works, but today that card is scrapped out and they might make them better now, but they don't make them with those same options anymore. I have been looking for a modern VGA card for about 4 years now with an RCA TV output and have yet to find one. I know I'm rambling but I did (as part of those ongoing efforts) buy even a motherboard that supports video output using both Svid and RCA output jacks. It's actually a beauty too. It's a FoxConn A6MVX Series, Micro ATX Form Factor, Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 and Sempron & AM2 Phenom. It has the ATI Radeon X1200 Series Pro on-board graphics and I think the standard vid memory is something like 400MB, but on Windows XP Pro with SP3 it operates using 700MB graphics memory and the whole damn board costs less than a stinkin 256MB PCI thro-away card. This board you can still find new in the box between $42 to (I think) $58. My only gripe on it is only 1 IDE connector port and just 2 DDR2 slots, but 4 SATA's and USB2 for 4 in the rear on the board and 2 more you can add into board for front panel connectors or just hook up an additional 4 using cables to whatever. Other downfall was the RCA jack never worked anyway, but the Svid out does and that's the reason for this post and the need to still want to convert from Svid out to RCA cable.


Extenders work (almost), but loss in quality I find unacceptable, if it wasn't so bad then I would just extend off of this 4' cable I got with that Detonator


Go ahead an ask why I'm even botherin with this crap anyway, I dare ya!
I'm doing all of this just for stinkin WinAmp and it's Visualizations Plug-ins, mostly AVS Studio. Because it's Fast, real fast and I love fast like I love loud and I want to save some to just watch and listen to while I watch where there is no computer, just a nice surround system with 500 Watts out per channel on an Altec Lansing amp, in a big dark room with the floors pounding, my ears ringing and just the noise, the speed of the light and more noise and more speed and just not a damn thing else!


That's what I want, that's what I'll get. Even if I have to build the fukkin thing outta matchsticks, paper, wood, glue and bicycle wheel spokes I am gonna get it because I am!


But first I gotta convert the visualizations into a TV compliant signal, then back into High-def Avi . Kinda sucks but nothins worth nothin if you aint gotta work for it to get it...


Peace or piece of something, enjoy or lie an say you did an if that don't work for ya don't drop a dime, save it instead to call someone who gives a shit...