Questions tagged [composite-video]
For questions pertaining to using or troubleshooting the composite video of a Raspberry Pi.
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What qualities should I look for in a small, 7" or 10" monitor?
Hi,
which small small and portable monitors would you suggest to combine with Raspberry Pi.
As Raspberry Pi is part of huge range of different project please suggest which would be best in each of ...
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Multiple Display Screens
I want to build a mini multimedia system based on the raspberry pi B+, which has 2 display screens:
The main screen (like a 42" LED TV), which plays the main video in Full HD.
HDMI
RCA/AV/Composite
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How do I connect Raspberry Pi to my TV?
I have an old TV set and it does not have HDMI. I wanted to know how to connect my RPi to it and which cables I should buy. Problem is I don't know what are these inputs called as, so I couldn't ...
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What is the 3.5mm port standard in RPi3?
What is the 3.5mm port standard in Raspberry Pi 3?
Is it CTIA or OMTP or any other standard? Mainly I want to know, which one is grounded? Say, tip ring ring sleeve = <1 2 3 4> respectively.
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Can I use the composite video connecor to send video INTO the Raspberry PI?
I am looking to convert video from an analogue surveillance camera (w. BNC connector) into a digital format using a Raspberry PI. I was wondering first if the composite video connector would allow me ...
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How do I get RCA video out of OpenELEC/LibreELEC?
Thanks to help received in here, I was able to get RCA video out of my Raspberry Pi 1 version B with NOOBS.
With Raspian (installed via NOOBS) all I had to do was editing the config.txt file to ...
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Streaming live video to Raspberry Pi
I am considering purchasing a Raspberry Pi solely for the purpose of sending video to my basement. I have a device with composite video out in the living room and I'd like the same content to be ...
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Raspberry pi 2 has a unified RCA and audio jack. What cable should i use to connect to an analog TV? [duplicate]
A 3.5 mm Male to an RCA Composite 3-pin cable was suggested, but i've read that this sort of cable needs modifications to work with the Raspberry Pi 2. Can anyone please give me a detailed description ...
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How to set the video resolution over composite?
I am trying to make a RPi 1 work nicely with an old LCD PAL TV (Sony KLV-20SR3). The video signal goes over composite (over SCART) because HDMI is not available. I am using LibreELEC.
By default the ...
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Pi2 with Kodi, output to composite video only works in some cases
Having set up one Kodi installation via HDMI on my TV, I now want another for my projector, using composite video. The Pi OS (Raspbian) is delivering composite just fine, and so does the Kodi home ...
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How to override config.txt settings during boot?
From the default NOOBS installation I have installed Raspbian. It seems NOOBS has added some settings to the config.txt file, where one of them is: hdmi_force_hotplug=1 which forces video to be on the ...
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Couldn't get Composite Video Output on Raspberry Pi 3B
I am trying to get composite video output from my raspberry pi to feed into my old CRT TV. I tried multiple times but without success. I bought an 4 pole 3.5mm RCA cable which was not according to the ...
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Purple Haze while recording from raspicam and picamera
I am recording from 8 raspicams using picamera. Initially the cameras gives the desired output but soon there is purple band/haze which appears on 3 cameras out of 8.
I checked for digital_gain, ...
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Screen resultion when using VNC / headless
I have a Pi model 3B. I used Raspberry Pi Imager to install the latest Bullseye onto the SD card; the installation was successful. The Pi is attached to a monitor with HDMI cable.
I have VNC and SSH ...
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Why is Component not working for Raspberry Pi 2?
Note: It may not be working because of which cable I am using.
So I have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and I want to connect it to a computer monitor that only takes composite video input.
This is what I'...
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RPi HDMI to RCA
I live in India and intend to buy a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B sometime soon but do not have a display with a HDMI input. So I'm stuck with RCA (3pin Yellow/White/Red) and S-video (No VGA). I also cannot ...
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A way to solder composite video directly to RPi B+ board?
I have a b+ newly purchased that I'm slimming down for a handheld build. Ideally, I'd like to be able to solder my composite video connection to the underside of the board like I could with a model B....
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Can hot (un)plugging a SCART cable corrupt an SD card?
Currently I am using my Raspberry Pi as a media player with Raspbmc. It connects via SCART (using a composite-to-SCART cable) to my tv.
My tv has only one SCART-input, and I also want to connect my ...
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Composite video color resolution
I have a rather theoretical question.
I connected my Raspberry Pi to my Composite NTSC TV and observed that the terminal video output has 640 pixels horizontal resolution with nice solid clear colors ...
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How do I connect the Raspberry Pi to a TV with limited input options?
I have a new LG TV. This TV has:
1 HDMI input that is used for a second display on my desktop PC
1 VGA that is used for a second display on my MacBook Pro
1 SCART input (is free)
1 compositor with 5 ...
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Making text very readable without X server on a 3.5 inch backup camera monitor
I setup a Pi with a car backup camera monitor and push button. It's for displaying a to-do list that I cycle through by pressing the button. I wrote it for the command-line so I don't have to use X-...
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cheap low light display for PI
I'm trying to build a dual-head alarm clock with a raspberry pi (1 pi, 2 display/button stations, 1 for each side of the bed). I was planning on using a pair of these off the composite port:
http://...
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input from GPIO requires touching composite video
I have a simple input setup via GPIO, on a headless PI (no video cables attached) The input it attached to a simple button. If I create a while loop and print out the status of the input, it goes ...
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Black/white on composite TV
Plugged my Pi into our old TV for the first time yesterday, using composite, it worked ok for a while, then flickered into black/white.
Fiddling round with the cables, I discovered that just holding ...
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Composite video on Compute Module
I'm working on a Compute Module design that uses the composite video output. I know the Zero and presumably the full size Pi have some passive components on the output pin, but I'm not sure what of ...
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Is it possible to switch composite video on and off at will?
I want to use this small LCD screen with the Pi for a static application to display some information:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0056WJP1M/
I read in the reviews that it will switch on ...
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Import composite/ntsc-signal
I already googled a lot and mostly read that importing composite Signal to the Raspberry is almost impossible. I would just take a webcam and proceed since it seems to be a lot easier.
The problem is,...
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omxplayer rtsp stream over composite output
I only manage my pi over ssh.
Finally I successfully tested a rtsp stream over hdmi with:
sudo omxplayer -o hdmi rtsp://<ip-address>/<streamname>/
How can I play a video or a stream ...
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How to Configure OSMC to output composite video on Raspberry Pi 2?
I have an http://osmc.tv (a Kodi distribution) setup on my Raspberry Pi 2. It works fine when plugging in the HDMI cable for video output. However, the composite video through the combined a/v jack ...
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RPi Model B 512 MB--FreeBSD--text running off screen
I am having a problem with FreeBSD, wherein I cannot get the text to be constrained within the area of a TV (composite). I have been using framebuffer_height and framebuffer_width in /boot/msdos/...
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No Video on 4.3" TFT using RCA composite cable on B+
I got a RPi scientific kit from CrazyPi.com. The kit came thru nicely, and upon following the instructions from various forums, I was able to do the following:
Connect the RPi to a VGA display using ...
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Connect Raspberry Pi to Macintosh 128k's cathodic screen
I have a Macintosh 128k and I want to connect its screen with a Raspberry Pi. Is it possible? How? Can I take some parts of another cathodic TV like composite video?
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Composite out strange behaviour (Raspian won't keep PAL)
I have connected my rbp3 to an old PAL/SECAM CRT television and have issues getting colors working.
I edited the /boot/config.txt file and set the sdtv_mode=2 flag and tweaked some settings.
As the ...
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Composite video out not working
I just got a new Raspberry Pi 3 with wifi. It works fine using the HDMI output, but I need to use it for a composite video project on an old PAL tv.
Just plugging it in with a composite video cable ...
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low resolution displaying on monitor in raspbian
I have low video output quality on the raspberry pi. I am using the analog output, on a 24" display which has an ideal resolution of 1920x1200. however I only get about 20" of that, at a of ...
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How do I shrink the screen with composite out?
I finally got my Pi to display on an old TV, via the RCA connector. Unfortunately, the Pi outputs a picture that is bigger than the TV can display. It does this on both the TV pictured here:
and a ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B v1.2 - Connect to old TV via Composite Video Output
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B v1.2. It works great on my TV that has HDMI port, but I am trying to hook it up to a TV that only has A/V and Composite Video inputs. From what I understand, I needed ...
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Getting two analog video channels out of a Pi 4B or 3B
It is correct to assume that with the Pi 4B's two HDMI outputs, it is possible, using two HDMI-to-RCA analog video adapters, to supply two analog CRT monitors with independent signals from the same ...
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Cannot get installed system to output component video, but NOOBS can
Background: Pi 3 B+ connected to an old tube TV with front composite video connection.
I've installed NOOBS on a 32GB microSD card, and am able to successfully boot it, using the keyboard 4 key (NTSC)...
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Raspberry Pi Zero 1.3 Audio pins
So I saw this awesome project Element 14 did with the Pi here
https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-79282/l/raspberry-pi-zero-retro-gaming-system
I have a Pi Zero 1.3 and I want to do this ...
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Is it possible to build a raspberry pi video player that connects to a TV via composite ports?
Are there any tutorials on this? I want to make it possible to play a mp4 avi video file like in a computer, just that it would be displayed on the TV screen. How do I handle the storage space? Is ...
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TV screen is black when using analog TV via yellow video cable (with or without scart adapter)
My Pi (1 version B, running OpenELEC and Raspian installed via NOOBS) works like a charm via HDMI (mind you, I also happen to use an HDMI to DVI adapter and I have no problems with that). But I cannot ...
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how to connect raspberry pi with composite in crt monitor?
I don't have a monitor with hdmi input so I purchased an av cable to connect my raspberry pi 2 model b with a crt tv I have. I have read that the default output of the pi is the hdmi and I tried to ...
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FFMPEG stream video and audio from USB capture
I really need some help with using FFMPEG to stream video and audio together through RTMP .I've overclocked my raspi 2 and tried as much as I could so far.
The video streams fine but I can't hear any ...
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Display USB webcam video to composite output
I have an old TV that has a composite video connection (analog video) and a USB webcam. I would like to stream videos from the usb webcam on the old TV. I connected and could see kind of booting list ...
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Using NOOBS, no keyboard
I have a keyboard/mouse combo that connect via Bluetooth to a sensor that plugs into the Pi. It works great because the sensor has minimal current draw, compared to other keyboards I have used (...
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On Boot: Random colors flashing in jagged formation then nothing
I am using Raspbian 2013-07-26 and I have been having a lot of trouble with my Pi lately (cheap SD card I'm thinking, lots of corrupt stuff).
Anyways, when I try to boot it I get this on the screen (...
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composite video comes back on with wrong resolution after 'tvservice --off' on model B with BCM2835
I am running buster on a model B rev.2 serving as a text-only signage display with a cheap 800x480 LCD car monitor attached to the composite video output (sdtv).
The settings in /boot/config.txt are:
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NOOBS bootloader doesn't use composite video
I created a dual-boot setup on my Pi 1B today and have it hooked up to an old NTSC CRT TV. When I first installed the OSes, I pressed "4" on my keyboard to get composite video out, and NOOBS prompted ...
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3.5mm to RCA/composite video cable not working? [duplicate]
I just got an RPi 2, a 5V power supply, a microSD card (EMTEC 64GB) loaded with NOOBS, and a cheap keyboard, so I assumed I was good to go for playing with my RPi. I pulled out a 3.5mm to RCA/...
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