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.pcklee123 said:Zeladin said:Are you thinking of replacing the er three pole jack socket? with a four pole jack for the video out? IE, L, R, Video, Gnd? That could work/ be quite cool, still I'd prefer not messing around with a load of cables... on the other there's 75E...pcklee123 said:
Yes if anyone has done this could you please post instructions? The advantage is that is that you would switch off the sound automatically when you plug in the video. The cable would be the ones used for the handycam which is easily available and much smaller than SVideo plus two other cables for sound.
The jack is a 4-pole already, they are bridging the fourth pole to ground, that is why the sense is crappy. I would cut the sense and wire it to a switch or something (in fact you could add a fifth wire for the sense that was more direct to the ground), then you could just jumper the video up to that fourth contact. The real trick is finding a properly wired 3.5mm A/V cable, I found out that Sony and whoever else are making ridiculous ones that aren't headphone compatible, although the Ipod Mini style ones should be compatible. So there are at least 3 different schemes, some are compatible by swapping the red/white/yellow leads to different sockets, some put the video or audio through the ground to all three, and those need to be re-wired to work.
Here is what I mean: http://pinouts.ru/Home/av_jack_pinout.shtml I would do it so that it was entirely like the audio, and then split the "ground" for the video.
I had some posts on this, maybe in 2005, I though techfreak was building a portable thing with it.
For making the Video you bridge the other S-video line with a ceramic capacitor, no biggie.
If the USB and the A/V was like this on the top (not to mention that the s-video would only need one more conductor, easily placed on the top too), then the GP2X would be almost perfect (and of course a proper stick or a d-pad), they should have done all three with the MK2 revision, so sad to see people with the HUA syndrome (Head Up Ass).
If, (hah), then we could have the VGA/HDTV out of the EXT as there would be plenty of room for it with the generic A/V and USB on the top.
If any hack with a soldering iron can put the USB next to the SD slot, then it should have been there from the start, yet all GPH does is smile and nod, happy that they are taking your money and oblivious to requests for simple and effective improvement of a device with so much potential.
DBH said:Im gonna buy that keyboard but just need to find a nice dinky mouse to go with it.
I got a Targus, the little silver optical one that looks like a full-size one, but it is diminutive.
+1, I can't believe that it is different from the Dev board, they can internally wire the jack and move the LED no problem.The MASTER said:
Although the 5v+ is pretty strange, maybe they have re-done it.
OK, the sides are crazy, I ain't spending $50+ for something I need to cut/file down the sides, it just isn't happening.
Other than that (and the fact there still isn't a built-in Video out and a switch for S-video/regular video, or a packed in adaptor), I like it, cut the price $20 and I might be tempted.
At the very least we might start to get some USB support
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