Can I connect and old TV with S-Video and/or the old red/yellow/white phono sockets?

Hi there, I've been given an old flat screen TV with a 4 pin S-Video socket and the old phono sockets; does anyone know if there is any way of connecting this as my monitor to me R Pi?

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Former Member over 11 years ago

If you where closer.. My "toy box" is full of misc cables and I would have what you need.. The yellow socket on the Rpi will connect to the video in on the TV.

OT When I went to WM a while back, the cashier was ringing up my stuff and I noticed his name.. His legal first name is Hammer.. :-)
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martinhammer1 over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions; I have now established the following. The RPi is sending the correct signal to the TV from the yellow composite socket (I did have to edit the config.txt to change it from NTSC to PAL though); it works on my main TV but not on the small one I was hoping to use, yet that is. I can't find any setting on the TV to select input from the Yellow composite socket, but this is clearly a problem with the TV and not the RPi. Thanks once again everyone.
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

Sometimes It is actually in the channel line up.. so it goes A/V then channel 2, 3, 4 and so on.. So you might try going thru the channels..
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martinhammer1 over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks for the thought but I've been through all the channels. According to the TV User Manual it should automatically switch to AV when the composite connector is plugged, but no luck.
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Problemchild over 11 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

Does your TV have a SCART input in which case a Phono to SCART would do the job very well.
Re auto selecting the device at power up that's what often happens but sometimes that's not an option or is a config switch on the menu.
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martinhammer1 over 11 years ago in reply to Problemchild

Thanks, but as it happened I have a phono to scart converter and it doesn't work thru that either!
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dweb98 over 11 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

I have an old RCA TV. That uses channel 91 or something like that. In
that range. There's no setting, in the menu, to turn it on or off. It
will, just pickup the Composite, signal, if it is there. I'm guessing
you have already tried the more common channels and line in, etc. If
your TV has it...

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dweb98 over 11 years ago in reply to martinhammer1

I have an old RCA TV. That uses channel 91 or something like that. In
that range. There's no setting, in the menu, to turn it on or off. It
will, just pickup the Composite, signal, if it is there. I'm guessing
you have already tried the more common channels and line in, etc. If
your TV has it...

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martinhammer1 over 11 years ago in reply to dweb98

I can finally put this one to bed. Managed to obtain the remote control for the TV which has an AV button on it. Pressed this while the RPi was booting, the RPi was on AV2 not AV1 which probably explains why it didn't work when the composite was just plugged in; but I now have my monitor!
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