5 Nov
2008
5 Nov
'08
9:31 a.m.
On 05/11/2008 17:08, JP Hindin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jason McBrien wrote:
What are they? Anything from an Indigo onwards can drive VGA or SVGA.
I have an Indy and an O2 with LCD panels, and used to have a VGA monitor
on an Indigo (so I expect my LCDs would work). An Indy even has an
S-video o/p already (nitpick: SVHS is a tape format) though I've never
tried using it without IRIX running. I've never used older SGIs than
that but I thought if you got the right levels on the monitor sense pins
on the ones with 13W3 connectors, they'd output at sensible rates with
appropriate sync signals. Doesn't help if you only have 3 x BNC, of
course; you'd at least have to construct a sync separator, but that's
potentially just a one-chip stripboard design.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
If you have a sun or SGI that outputs somewhat
normal VGA, you could use
something like an Avermedia Quickplay to convert it to SVHS and record from
there.
If they outputted standard SVGA I'd just use a standard LCD panel ;)
Alas, no, the machines in question can only be relied upon to output
standard SGI and standard Sun video.