[mythtv-users] two and one

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:48 am, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > Looking around I found reference to the RCA connector on the back being
> > tv-out and other references to it being SPDIF, is there a jumper for
> > swapping these on the motherboard (it'd be nice to not have cables
> > hanging out the front).  Since there's S-Video out, I wouldn't really
> > want to use the composite out anyway.  How well does the video out work
> > on this?  Can you post the X configuration you needed to make this work
> > properly?
>
> spdif and rca are completely different protocols (I don't know much
> about spdif, but was under the impression that it was optical).  And no,
> I doubt there's any way to make the rca plug do anything other than rca
> video.

EPIA-M motherboards (at least) have a plug that can be switching between 
composite TV-out and SPDIF through a jumper on the motherboard.

Isaac