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Duh !

https://lemmy.world/post/10087069

Duh ! - Lemmy.World

Dec 29, 2023 at 9:02amWeb
Show threadneidu2Dec 29, 2023

I’ve scrolled past this meme countless times, but somehow I didn’t think of this before now: What does an S-video signal sound like?Anyone have the hardware to test it out and record the sound for me?

I’ve opened serial terminals to serial mice, and I’ve abused /dev/dsp with random binaries I’ve fancied at the moment, but it never dawned on me to plug the red RCA jack into the yellow port in the mame of science, and now I only have audio RCA…

Show thread9point6Dec 29, 2023

S-video was a mini DIN connector which wouldn’t have fit into one of these RCA jacks.

If you’d put composite video (the yellow RCA cable in this setup) into one of the audio jacks, pretty much all TVs would not do anything with it as an incompatible signal. If they actually tried to turn it into something, it wouldn’t be audible. Composite video generates a signal at something like 5-10Mhz, human hearing tops out around 20Khz (250-500x lower)

Show threadMidnight WolfDec 29, 2023
Just need to overclock the human auditory senses, duh
Show threadPossibly linuxDec 29, 2023
You clearly haven’t seen my on Caffeine
Show threadtheneverfoxDec 29, 2023

Oh God, why did you capitalize that? Why is it capitalized???

I’m afraid

Show threadNatanaelDec 29, 2023
You can always drag out the signal to frequency shift it or something similar. It’s done all the time in astronomy as an example to create visualizations.
Show threadChobbesDec 29, 2023
I guess it depends how much of a frequency shift you do, but I imagine with the blanking intervals it will mostly just sound like a nasty sawtooth wave?
Show threadBlueDec 29, 2023
I have an N64 and C64 hooked up with S-video and the cable splits into a din connector and left/right RCA connectors
Show threadLazaroFilmDec 29, 2023
I do t m ow what it sounds da like but i know what it looks like. It’s basically modulating for every line of your TV high is bright and low is black with a marker for each line.
Show threaddustyDataDec 29, 2023
In the worse quality TV, putting the composite video into an audio line would make the speakers do a short distorted buzz, then cutoff. The higher quality TVs won’t even flinch. Their internal processing was fast enough to detect the wrong thing was connected, that the signal modulation never even made it to the amplifier. But to our ears it was probably just a bunch of electronic farts.
Show threadwolfshadowheartDec 29, 2023
I can’t comment on how it sounds but I can recommend video feedback synthesis!
Show threadPossibly linuxDec 29, 2023
If I remember correctly it does not make ant sound. Another commenter says its due to advanced audio processing.
Show thread9point6Dec 29, 2023
Europeans: is this something I’m too SCART to understand?
Show threadKusimulkkuDec 29, 2023
We had this too though. SCART just was more common.
Show threaddiprount_tomatoDec 29, 2023
What? We have these in the European countries (Not “Europe”)
Show thread9point6Dec 29, 2023

Anything during the 90s to early 00s sold in Europe came with a SCART connector as the main AV connector. If it wasn’t a direct-from-the-unit SCART cable, there would have been an adapter block to turn the RCA into SCART.

It wasn’t uncommon for cheap TVs to only have RF and SCART.

Also “is this something I’m too X to understand” is a meme format

Show thread4amDec 29, 2023
If I may interject here, but in actuality the system users are using is not, in fact, “Linux” but is actually GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
Show threadBlackmistDec 29, 2023
Component, composite, s-video and stereo sound in one cable. Although it did mean that you’d have to be careful because a cable to something like a PS2 might only implement the lowest quality of them.
Show thread[She/Her] EdgeRunner 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29, 2023
The struggle was to get the wires and to plug different devices, with differents standards, between them.
Show threadcomrade19Dec 29, 2023
I came into things right when they were well established. Composite and component were so reliable right before HDMI replaced it
Show threadPr0v3nDec 29, 2023
I mean to be fair, usually these were tucked away in the back of a heavy, wooden TV cabinet where it was dark and difficult to reach into to match the colours, even with a torch; and you couldn’t just feel your way around the back to plugging them in because they all felt the same.
Show threaddukatosDec 29, 2023
No mirrors back then, too /s
Show threadBlanketsWithSmallpoxDec 29, 2023
Kids be like wtf you didn’t have flashlights yet?
Show threadPeter1986CDec 29, 2023
Torches in this context are flashlights.
Show threadBlanketsWithSmallpoxDec 29, 2023
… Yes… That’s the joke.
Show threadget_off_the_phoneDec 29, 2023
You gotta remember that in the Old World, 100 years is not a long time. It’s only like 30 years. So in the 90s, they were 100 years ago and hadn’t invented flashlights yet so they used torches instead.
Show threadAsswaterpirateDec 29, 2023
Just do it in alphabetical order. ®ed, (W)hite, (Y)ellow. If it doesn’t work, do it reverse because it’s upside down. Two tries max.
Show threadouRKaoSDec 29, 2023

Oh, there’s the problem… this TV has 3 inputs aligned vertically so I’ve plugged each cable into the video spot of 3 different inputs…

Time to power clean 100lbs of CRT back into a dedicated piece of furniture!

Show threadpainfulasteriskDec 29, 2023
Exactly, is similar to plug in an USB-A, two tries max.
Show threadSpider2013Dec 29, 2023
Are you sure?
Show threadTrickDacyDec 29, 2023
The most relatable modern human experience
Show threadbitwabaDec 29, 2023

Also known as USB Superposition

innoculous.com/…/the-quantum-physics-of-usb-plugs…

The Quantum Physics Of USB Plugs | Innoculous.com

Why you can never plug in that USB device on the first try.

Innoculous.com
Show threadjose1324Dec 29, 2023
Damn that’s smart
Show threadwazzupdogDec 29, 2023
That would be great it that was standard, too many times i came across a tv that had the audio channels reversed.
Show threaddylanTheDeveloperDec 29, 2023
Nah uh parrallel and serial ports were worse because you have to screw the little feet in
Show threadhemkoDec 29, 2023
And some asshole tightened those with screwdriver and you’d kill your fingers trying to open it
Show threadDozzi92Dec 29, 2023
I remember trying to plug them in and feeling like I’m screwing it in, and letting pressure off and it just flops out. Break time.
Show threadPossibly linuxDec 29, 2023
And then you get the people who rip the connector out because they don’t understand screws
Show threadcaptainlezbianDec 29, 2023
The problem with RCA cables wasn’t the colors, it was the fact that the back of the tv was huge and you really wanted to not have to get back there. HDMI you can install by feel
Show threadItsamelemmyDec 29, 2023
Yup. Kids got it easy now.
Show threadSpider2013Dec 29, 2023
Wtf?
Show threadTJA!Dec 29, 2023
Ouch
Show threadAntitrust7668Dec 29, 2023
How does that even happen? 😆 These people destroying their things willy nilly
Show threadcolforgeDec 29, 2023
These were clearly all done by either children or by adults who never learned to moderate their use of force. All gas no brakes. Zero sense of finesse.
Show threadSanyanovDec 29, 2023
I’ve read the last sentence with the air of connoisseur
Show threadBuddahrifficDec 29, 2023
Or have 0 patience and gets frustrated easily and gives in to the monkey brain solution then eventually calms down and swallows their pride and brings it in to get fixed.
Show threadfrezikDec 29, 2023
Want to know something even better? PS5s showed up on eBay like this within a month of release. Good money to be made if you were handy with a soldering iron.
Show threadDreamButtDec 29, 2023
Is your cable not fitting? Try applying unreasonable amounts of force today!
Show threadMario_Dies.wavDec 29, 2023
You can? I can’t. They have to be perfectly aligned, and I can’t get HDMI or DP cables to connect without visually seeing the outlet and plug.
Show threadJackbyDevDec 29, 2023
You have a chance to install by feel though. RCA you have to see the colors.
Show threadMario_Dies.wavDec 29, 2023
Ok this is true, although if I had to reconnect a device pretty often, I’d be able to feel out the location of the plugs. But otherwise, yes.
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartDec 30, 2023

I can’t even feel out the location of my wife’s vagina and I’ve been reconnecting to that for years.

Props.

Show threadMario_Dies.wavDec 30, 2023
We people with bad vision find a way lol
Show threadEarthwormjim91Dec 30, 2023

The first time….

After that you know which order they are in on your tv and you can just reach your hand back there. Once you have the first one in it’s easy.

Show threadJackbyDevDec 31, 2023
I’m not really plugging and unplugging things often enough to memorize it.
Show threadcaptainlezbianDec 29, 2023
It’s a pain in the ass and I usually fail, but sometimes it works. Though far more importantly, it’s easier to get behind a flat screen with a swivel base than a big crt. RCA cables were on their way out when bigger tvs stopped weighing so damn much and taking up so much depth
Show threadPerfideDec 29, 2023
It’s tricky but it is doable, unlike with RCA where you have to plug in 3 identical connectors with the only identifier being the color.
Show threadHrodericDec 29, 2023
Also some devices would have like 5 sets of these connectors. You’d be playing around with the remote and plugging and unplugging stuff until you found the right one.
Show threadZyratoxxDec 29, 2023
The real struggle was mixing up VGA and Serial
Show threadTheBlackLoungeDec 29, 2023
They’re often too tight or too loose, and you have to reach behind closets so you can’t see the color to match, and you have to put them in at weird angles.