msi/nvidia dongle

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I bought an MSI Geforce 6600GT PCIe and it has a 9 pin svideo connector at the back.

It comes with an Nvidia dongle which has 5 connections on it

1 yellow composite
1 s-video
1 green labeled "Y"
1 blue labeled "Pb"
1 red label "Pr"

I am new to this and I am wondering what these connectors do

I know the s-video is for TV-OUT, because I can get it working.

I am not sure if the yellow composite is tv-in or tv-out

Their website on the card says

TV-out (S-Video connector)
Video_in (Composite Video)

So I am assuming that the yellow is TV_in. But how do I use it? What kind of software should I use?

Do you have to turn off the PC and tv_in device, connect the wires, then turn them back on?

There are no instructions, the manual is useless

Thanks

 

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Any tiny little arrows on the connectors? Some of these pigtails have directional arrows molded into the plastic to indicate in/out.

The yellow plug is standard composite video

The Y,Pb,Pr are component video as seen on the back of DVD players. I've never seen them on a video card before but I assume they are video-out if you want to hook the PC up to an HD TV.


Sometimes these connectors are bidirectional and can be used for in or out, as on some Canon/Sony video cameras.

Check the Display control panel -> Advanced and see if there's a "Displays" tab. It may show there at least what output options are available.