[mythtv-users] Supervideo and miniplug to RCA

[gonzalo diethelm]

I want to (temporarily) use an old laptop as a front-end. It is an old
Asus, and the (old) TV has one set of RCA inputs (the typical ones:
yellow for video, red and white for audio).

For video, the laptop has a supervideo output and I have seen cables at
Radio Shack that convert from supervideo to RCA; these cables have no
circuitry in between, just a piece of wire with a supervideo plug on one
end and a RCA plug on the other. Do these cables work, or do I need a
more sophisticated video converter?

The laptop has a single miniplug output for audio, marked as S-PDIF
(from memory). Will it work if I plug another simple cable with a stereo
miniplug on one end and two RCA plugs on the other? What happens to the
sound amplification / impedance in this case?

Thanks for any hints and best regards.

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm
DCV - Chile