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These appear to be unavailable in this country so I did a net search. However the results have me puzzled.One at http://www.svideo.com/svideosplitter.html is about $17 and appears to be rather basic with no guarantee it would work.
At the other extreme is a $335 unit at http://www.svideo.com/svideosplitter.html which undoubtably would do any task.
My requirement is to take a single s video out from a satellite decoder to feed both a videorecorder AND an s-video input to a projector. The splitter could be avoided by merely daisy chaining to the projector via the VCR but that ties up the VCR.
Anyone with experience with this?
John
Peace at AA
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The 'pro' way, of course, is to use a distribution amplifier. Eg Extron http://www.svideo.com/svideosplitter.html
I looked into this a few months ago and got similar results. I talked to someone at PartsExpress who said that S-video "Y" cables don't seem to work out well, but gave no real reason why. He suggested that I buy a switch box from them that would take care of my needs. It turned out that it would let me switch the output between two different jacks but not let me sent it to both.I open the box up to take a look. Prom the PCB it turns out that of the 5 pins, three were wired parallel and unswitched thoughout. The switching took place on only two pins. I took some magnet wire and wired the coressponding pins together using the traces on the bottom of the PCB. This is really simple and almost anyone could figure it out easier than I can explain it. I choose the magnet wire only because it was the easiest to work with in the confines of the PCB and the case and because i had it laying around - there is nothing special about it otherwise.
Except for switches, traces and jacks there are no other components in the box. Somehow, since it was video, I had imagined I would find something more involved.
If I were to do this again, a cleaner way would be a small plastic box, three S-video jacks (one in, two out), some wire and some solder. Just wire each of the two outputs to the input one-to-one on the pins.
Maybe there is something wrong with this in some cases, but it mine the results on screen look perfect.
Like you, I figured there might be something extraordinary going on, especially looking at the expensive unit I mentioned. It might depend upon what it is all plugged into. Anyway, it will not cost much to try it out. I'll post back on results when I get around to doing it.Thanks again.
John
Peace at AA
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