What is this Video hardware that I found?

rngetter

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So, while going through one of my boxes, of "acquired" hardware, I stumble across a peculiar piece of hardware, that I don't remember receiving or a clue as to what I could use it with, but I'd very much like to use it with my son's Dell Dimension 3000. It doesn't have a circuit board to it, and it fits into the outside-PCI-housing. (Not the actual PCI bus) The face-plate has an S-Video output, and an RCA video output. They both connect to a wire that would be able to plug into a 5-pin adapter of some sort. (I assume on some motherboard or graphics card.) My question is, what is this, or who made it, or can this device be used on any motherboard, or lastly does anyone have the schematics for this? I would like to AT THE VERY LEAST use this to make a homemade VGA to S-Video/RCA-Video adapter, but if there's a basic port available on say a Dell Dimension 3000; I would definitely like to know.
 
Can't tell you exactly what it is without at the least a photo, but I can get pretty close. It likely came with a video card and splits output from a proprietary port on the video card to standard ports. Or it could be for input. It would be useless without the corresponding video card. Sorry.

PS - I can see you posted photos, but the current firewall blocks them.
 

rhapdog

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It would definitely need the corresponding video card. Those types of items were very proprietary. It looks like it is a hookup to allow a user to do video play-through or video-capture using their video card, which may have most likely been one of the ATI All-in-Wonder TV/VGA cards, but that's just a guess. Those cards had to split that part out to a separate bracket, because there wasn't room on the card's bracket to place the extra connectors that were needed.