Component Video to DVI

Nolf-JobNolf-Job Inside each and every one of you!
edited July 2003 in Hardware
Is it possible to buy the adapter shown here http://www.ati.com/support/connectors/componentvideo/cablecomponentvideoadapter.html and then use a female to female DVI cable in order to go from component video out to DVI in? The reason I ask is because I would purchase the HD adapter set for the xbox and get 5.1 sound and then run the component video to my computer monitor, but I don't know if the adapter can operate in the reverse direction that its intended to.

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  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    It would be nice to know what videocard you have firstly, but if you have a Radeon non-aiw, then no. There´s no video-in on those.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited July 2003
    Mack , he is not wanting to go in to his computer, but in to his monitor.

    Nolf-job , I would say no. This adaptor takes a DVI output and converts it to Component signal. Most adaptors like this are not two-way, as they rely on on-board circuitry to do some signal processing. Unless the specs specfically say that it would be two way, it likely is not.

    Dexter...
  • Nolf-JobNolf-Job Inside each and every one of you!
    edited July 2003
    I'm not running it to the video card at all. I want to run the xbox component out ----> ATI adapter that I have listed above ----> a female-to-female DVI cable ----> the monitor cable from a flat panel monitor.

    But I don't know if that adapter will work as a standalone one, and if it does I'm not sure if it will operate in the reverse direction (i.e. component in instead of component out like it's meant to)

    This ATI adapter is the only thing that I've seen what will go from component to DVI/VGA
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Ohhmaaan...i know...dammit i should read things twice until i answer. I understand better now. Is there a way to get the connection scheme on that adapter as well as on the rest for comparison?

    Sorry for the idiotic answer before.
  • Nolf-JobNolf-Job Inside each and every one of you!
    edited July 2003
    Mackanz said
    Is there a way to get the connection scheme on that adapter as well as on the rest for comparison?

    Sorry for the idiotic answer before.


    I don't really understand that question. My goal is just to try to get my xbox to run on my computer monitor using component video. If you know any other way that'd be great.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Is THIS what you are looking for??? Or close???

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    Monster Cable XGLS 100 SV/R-6 GameLink Standard Composite/S-Video A/V Cable for Xbox (6 Feet)
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  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    What i meant is that if there is a way to check all those connectors cable scheme so that you know where any + and - cable goes WITHIN that connector before you buy it.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited July 2003
    Nolf,I had a good long look for component to DVI conversion adaptors, and I only came up with some expen$ive looking items, like this guy

    http://www.astro-systems.com/ASTRO-2003/presentation-pages/sc-2040.htm

    What you want to do is possible, but you are looking at home theatre / presentation style gear, and that tends to be pretty pricey.

    Dexter...
  • Nolf-JobNolf-Job Inside each and every one of you!
    edited July 2003
    Thanks for looking Dexter, I seem to be getting the same results. The best I found was a component to VGA converter box for $150 and I don't think that's worth it. I guess my only option is to run the xbox component video to a receiver and then svideo out of the receiver to svideo in of my video card and that gets displayed on the monitor. Just wondering, is this going to look any better than regular tv or worse now?
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited July 2003
    Nolf-Job said
    I guess my only option is to run the xbox component video to a receiver and then svideo out of the receiver to svideo in of my video card and that gets displayed on the monitor. Just wondering, is this going to look any better than regular tv or worse now?


    Only if you have an AMAZING S-video capture on your vid card. Otherwise you are going D to A out of the X-box, through an A pass-through splitter in the amp, then A to D into the vid card, then D through the DVI out to the monitor. It might look ok, but that analog S-video input getting upconverted to digital may kill any gain you would get using the DVI out to the monitor.

    If you try it and see, I'd be interested in hearing your results.

    Dexter...
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Well, Dazzle Media Hubs might do what you want. They cross convert a lot of signals. TigerDirect and Circuit City have those, in several flavors.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited July 2003
    Dazzle makes Video Capture and Media Reader devices. Their edit suite is a low end capture card that may have component in, but defintely does not have DVI out. I don't think they will have what you need, and looking through Circuit City's and Dazzle's websites, I didn't see anything close.

    Dexter...
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited July 2003
    <a href="http://store.viewsonic.com/html/ibeCZzpHome.jsp?site=VS_STORE&respid=22372">one of these perhaps?</a>
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