13 pin din connection

SO I recently bought a cheap 9" tat display for a Pi project. When I opened the box, I was surprised to see this odd looking connector. It is designed for 4 inputs (with sound I think). Has anyone seen anything like this, or know how to wire it? I just need on input. And It can just be video, I'll deal with audio later. I think I'll have to use RCA as the input which is fine. But I can't get anything but a blue screen.

Any help is greatly appreciated

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0 shabaz over 10 years ago

Is there an accessory cable that converts from that connector to RCA style (composite/phono video/audio) connectors?
If not, you may need to check with the vendor for a pinout (or attempt to reverse engineer by taking it apart but that may be difficult).
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0 mcb1 over 10 years ago

This might help.
http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=17412

You could always ask the vendor for information about connecting it.
Usually these multi connectors have separate colour and sync ..which might not be available.

Mark
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0 demesauce over 10 years ago in reply to shabaz

There is a connector. One end is the 13 pin connection, the other end has four 4-pin connections, was well as power, ground, and wires that when hot will automatically select the video input. Looks like I will try to reverse engineer. The seller on eBay doesn't know the manufacturer and there are no labels and all serial numbers come up empty
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0 demesauce over 10 years ago in reply to demesauce

Wow, I think I may have something. I'm getting some video, but there is a blue line across the bottom of the display.

I can't find any pinout diagrams online.
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to demesauce

Phil Detterman wrote:

I can't find any pinout diagrams online.

Is this of any help?
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0 demesauce over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Thanks man, but that pinout does not seem to match up with mine. I can't really test it at the moment either. The only RCA output device I have is a DLR camera, and I remember reading their composite is kinda funky. Hopefully my 3.5mm to composite will arrive soon for my Pi.
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0 demesauce over 10 years ago

What I ended up doing was hijack a 4 pole 3.5mm plug and take the video and ground connections from there. I was able to find video, luckily there was 1 pin that runs the video line. It works, kinda. Video looks pretty bad, its not centered and is fuzzy, but at least it works. I am hoping it partly sucks cause of how I hacked the video together, but I realize composite video was never that good to begin with. I'm gonna mess around with the config.txt to see if I can clear it up some.

Can you output specific resolutions on the 3.5mm line, or does that just pertain to the HDMI output??
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