S-video to TiBook

I have a Sony CCD-TRV118 Handycam that does not have a Firewire out port, but it does have an S-video and A/V outut port. Is there a cable that will connect from either of these to Firewire? Thanks in advance!

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HD video output on TiBook?

Is there any way to get my TiBook 400 MHz (15 inch) to output at HD resolutions? I just bought a new 1080p HDTV, and I can output using S-video to the TV', but then the resolution on the big screen TV looks crappy.
My TiBook also has a VGA port, and I've output to projectors to give presentations many times. . . but there is not VGA input on my HDTV. . . only composite video (ie: non-HD), S-video (same), component (HD), or HDMI.
Is there such a thing as a VGA to HDMI (or component) adapter? And, if I were to use it, would my I be able to get High-def resolutions on my HDTV from my TiBook?
Thanks.

Hi, dgalvan. No, your old Powerbook doesn't have any digital video output capability, and its 8MB of VRAM can't support 24-bit color at any resolution higher than 1280 x 960 on an external monitor or TV, regardless of how it's connected.
EDIT: However, you do have one of the only PB G4 models whose video can be upgraded with a CardBus add-on. For somewhat more than your Powerbook is worth, you can add a DVI port to it and increase its maximum output resolution to the HD level. I can't help you with any of the details or side issues (notably how to get audio to the TV) because I don't know diddly about HDTV.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Viewsonic/VTBOOK/
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Watching streaming video on an 867mhz TiBook?

I'm struggling to watch streamed video content on my 867mhz TiBook and wondered whether there was anything I could do to make content run properly? It's running 10.4.11 with 1GB RAM, using Safari. I'm trying to watch BBC i-Player content.
Thanks

1. Don't have any other applications or operations running at the same time.
2. If you can download the video first and then watch it from your hard drive instead of streaming it in real time, do so.
3. Check with your ISP to see whether they offer an option providing greater bandwidth and faster download speeds.
4. If you use cable internet, watch streaming video during off-peak hours when there's less competition for the available bandwidth.
5. Expect the steadily growing demands of multimedia-laden websites to make your Powerbook completely obsolete for such uses before long. Some would tell you it already is obsolete, and they aren't far wrong.

1Ghz TiBook - Random freezing. Logic board fault?

Hi all,
perhaps one of you might be able to help troubleshoot this, because it's seriously driving me up the wall! I bought a used 1Ghz Titanium (DVI) recently and I'm finding that it freezes randomly when in use, requiring a comand+control restart. I've almost always experienced it in Safari, but also once in Entourage, illustrator and also in MacOS 9.2.2 Finder. Essentially what happens is that the cursor freezes and the powerbook no longer responds to keystrokes or trackpad input. I've tried an external mouse but that doesn't fix things either. The display is still lit but any moving graphics/video are frozen on screen. If music is playing in iTunes it cuts out leaving the last second of sound looping. Shortly after freezing I sometimes hear the fan come on, so perhaps there is a part of the powerbook still working after the crash (?). Also, I can select/deselect the caps lock and number lock keys and the green LEDs switch on and off, so perhaps it's not completely dead? The moment of the freeze almost always coincides with a mouse/trackpad click on the scroll bar, menu, safari menu bar, dock icon, form submit button, etc. It will on occasion freeze overnight when there is no mousing at all. generally though I can leave it playing iTunes all night and when I start using it in the morning it'll freeze when I collect my email or something.
the frequency of the freezing is semi-random; I have gone for roughly 48hrs of constant use without incident and then suddenly 2-4 crashes in short succession (ie, within about 10 mins of each other). Generally it freezes about 2 or 3 times a day. They do often come regular clumps.
Initially I thought it was Safari, or the OSX 10.4.5 installation that came with the powerbook, but I removed the entire HD and replaced it with the working drive from my Pismo and had exactly the same symptoms. Realising it was hardware related I did the usual drill of swapping, re-seating and removing ram, etc - but no dice. I've run Apple Hardware Test in a couple of 18hr loops but they return a glowing report about my hardware! techtool does likewise. I took it to the new Apple Centre in London where they ran their (apparently more powerful) AHT CD for 73 loops over 3 hours. Again, no reported errors!
I've read the long 'trackpad cable thread', and opened my powerbook to see if pinching the cable is an issue, but it's clearly not. I have lots of clearance around my trackpad cable and it's not in contact with any part of the case. I've even applied pressure all around the palmrest and the outside of my powerbook case hoping to induce a freeze but that doesn't seem to do anything.
What should I do next? when the powerbook works it's fine, but I'm at a loss as to what's causing the freezing. As a performing musician playing to hundreds of people a fault like this renders my powerbook useless since it must be absolutely stable and bullet-proof on stage.
thanks for reading and I'm grateful for any advice.
TiBook 1Ghz (DVI) Mac OS X (10.3.9) 9600/350

hi there,
thanks for the welcome. i've been visiting here for a while and find all the posts very useful.
the trackpad issue is an odd one; my powerbook doesn't seem to show the classic symptoms of weird startup chimes or jerky cursor movement, etc in the other thread. I nonetheless opened up the powerbook praying that I'd find a pinched cable since that would have been so easy to fix. unfortunately there's nothing about it that looks problematic.
I had also suspected heat as being an issue and searched this forum a couple of times for related posts, but couldn't find anything. When I opened the powerbook i checked the fans for obstructions and blew out any dust i could see (i didn't have compressed gas). Again, they looked fairly normal to me - i didn't spot anything obvious like a trapped cable. As far as I can tell all 3 fans come on OK. First one of them and then after some time another one or two turn on after the powerbook has been running a while. (Is it actually possible to determine whether or not they're all working?)
It's difficult to say whether heat is actually related to the freezing. certainly I often notice the fans come on before a freeze, or right afterwards, but just as many times that's not the case. what is consistant however is that the freeze occurs the instance a cursor selection is clicked.
would you say this would be resolved by a logic board swap, because I know someone selling one. On the other hand, I'm a little confused by all the error-free reports I get when I run the Apple Hardware Test for extened loops.
thanks again for your help!

No S-Video to TV output on PowerBook?

I know this is a MacBook Pro forum, but I didn't get a reply over at the PowerBook forum. Hopefully there's someone with PowerBook knowledge in this forum.
Yesterday I tried to hook up my sister's old 15" 1GHZ Ti Powerbook to her TV. The TV was black. No audio or video. I used an s-video/3.5mm stereo plug to scart cable. As per Apple's instructions, I rebooted the Mac and turned the TV off. I also played with different resolutions, including 640x480. During a reboot, the TV doesn't show any signs of getting a signal (no flicker etc).
Her TV is PAL but I didn't find anywhere in the Display settings where I could change the Mac's output to PAL or NTSC. Her TiBook is running 10.5.4.
Does anyone know what I could do to solve this. Also, could someone who has successfully connected their Powerbook to a TV through the S-Video output, tell me the proper procedure to do so. I just feel as if I should enable the S-Video output somehow but can't find any settings for it.

Daft suggestion, on my old PBG4, I spent a fair while in a similar position, the scart adapter had a slider on the top - this specified the convert direction - needless to say I had the slider the wrong way.
If that is not applicable, then make sure you have selected AV, and cycle though AV, incase there is more than one AV channel on your TV, as I am in the UK, my TV is also PAL, so that shouldn't make a difference.
If the mac finds the extra display, then screen goes blue, while it sorts itself out, if this doesn't happen, the mac is not 'finding' the TV.
Hope it helps

Dvi and s-video

Hi guys.
I have a setup that uses two monitors, the one attached to my TiBook being my music program, and the additional monitor to watch the video along with it (i'm a film composer).
As I'm attempting to upgrade monitors (from post-production boxy monitor to flat panel sleek and sexy monitor), I'm trying to find a way to be able to record the video on the second monitor to a VCR. As many flat-panel monitors out there only have one VGA input and no outputs, it puts me in a bit of a pickle.
So I was wondering if one were to set up the flat panel monitor to the DVI output on the back, and also hook up the S-Video output to a VCR, would both the monitor and the VCR get the same video signal?
--Adam

Sorry...just to clarify for my benefit:
No they won't get the same signal(?) - as in you can get two displays, or No, they won't get different signals so you can't achieve what you wanted. I suspect the latter but I don't know.
cheers
mrtotes

No S-Video to TV output?

Yesterday I tried to hook up my sister's old 15" 1GHZ Ti Powerbook to her TV. The TV was black. No audio or video. I used an s-video/3.5mm stereo plug to scart cable. As per Apple's instructions, I rebooted the Mac and turned the TV off. I also played with different resolutions, including 640x480. During a reboot, the TV doesn't show any signs of getting a signal (no flicker etc).
Her TV is PAL but I didn't find anywhere in the Display settings where I could change the Mac's output to PAL or NTSC. Her TiBook is running 10.5.4.
Does anyone know what I could do to solve this. Also, could someone who has successfully connected their Powerbook to a TV through the S-Video output, tell me the proper procedure to do so. I just feel as if I should enable the S-Video output somehow but can't find any settings for it.

Daft suggestion, on my old PBG4, I spent a fair while in a similar position, the scart adapter had a slider on the top - this specified the convert direction - needless to say I had the slider the wrong way.
If that is not applicable, then make sure you have selected AV, and cycle though AV, incase there is more than one AV channel on your TV, as I am in the UK, my TV is also PAL, so that shouldn't make a difference.
If the mac finds the extra display, then screen goes blue, while it sorts itself out, if this doesn't happen, the mac is not 'finding' the TV.
Hope it helps

Front Row Video Distortion

I have a new iMac intel 20" screen, and I downloaded some TV shows from iTunes and they are very distorted - the sound is fine, but the picture is not good quality. I have downloaded the latest Front Row update (1.2.2), but it really did not help. Is there a way to fix this? All of my dvds play fine...would it help to burn the shows to a dvd then play them? Or could I change the screen resolution or media player? thanks!

What do you mean by distorted? Does it appear blocky or is there rough movement in dark backgrounds?
When you view the video using the window in iTunes, does the video look better?
If it looks better in a smaller screen, remember that the shows at the iTMS are compressed for viewing on the iPod, and while most of them display fine on a television screen, they may not look as good on your iMac screen at full screen. I see a lot of blockiness in things like Battlestar Galactica when I play them full screen on my 17'' Apple Display connected to my G5, but the TV handles them fairly well when playing them from the Mini using Front Row.
Dual G5, Intel Mini, TiBook, iMac FP800 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Video (Only Audio) Works on Mac-Created QT Web Movie

I'm on a Mac with iMovie 6. When I export a Quicktime movie using the standard Web export setting then post it on the Internet, PC users can only hear the audio but not see the video portion. What am I missing?
Thanks!
G5, Tibook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
G5, Tibook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Since you are using QT 7 and the standard (preset) settings it is likely using H264 encoding for the movie. That means PC users would also have to have QT 7 for Windows installed to be able to see the video. You wiill have to use a PC-friendly format, like mpeg-1, for them. Since QT doesn't produce that format natively you will have to obtain some other software to do so, like Toast (commercial app) or perhaps ffmpegX (shareware).

Missing video ram

I have a 1ghz Titanium G4 with the ATI 9000 mobility 64mb video ram. OSx 10.3.9 1gig ram
Recently I have discovered that the system profiler lists my total video ram as 32 mb. My overall game performance seems diminished when playing graphically intense games such as Unreal Tournament 2004.
This discovery seems to have occurred around the same time that I had a battery charging problem which I have since fixed. My system has also been suffering increasing freezes upon wake from sleep or screen saver.
I recently perfomed an archive/installation of my OS hoping that might restore some corrupted files in the system, but no luck.
Has anyone else seen this problem or know of a cause/solution?
Thanks.

Hi, pioche. A 1GHz Tibook certainly ought to have 64MB of VRAM, and if it doesn't, the only reasonable conclusion is that the missing half has failed. It's all soldered onto the main logic board, so the remedy is to replace the board. Of course another alternative might be to avoid asking too much of the remaining 32MB, and thereby save quite a bit of money. That's what I'd do if there weren't any other signs that might point to a larger failure of the LB, but it sounds as though yours may be on its way out. Have you run the Hardware Test CD that came with the Powerbook?

Sharp 26 inch HDTV too big for TiBook?

I have a Sharp 26 inch LCD HDTV. I am running DVI output from the 667 TiBook into the HDMI video input. It works OK, but the margins of the video are hidden under the edges of the LCD. So for example, I can only see about 1/4 of the Dock because the rest is hidden. As a result, I can only run it as a second monitor.
What's causing it? Is the screen too big for the TiBook's video driver?

http://support.apple.com/specs/macbook/macbookmid2007.html
"...Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 by 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors..."
What is the max resolution of the HDTV? You should consider the Apple mini-DVI to DVI adapter and use a DVI-HDMI cable if your HDTV has an HDMI or DVI input, generally the digital signal might be better quality than the VGA analog signal.
You want to be able to match the native resolution of the monitor for best quality. When you use a different resolution, it may be supported but not appear as sharp. It might be hard to get good text quality on that large a monitor, but images and video might work okay.
If you want, you can also run an audio cable from the MacBook lineout to use the TV or your stereo speakers.

Bad screen and wiped HD on G4/867 TiBook

I got a TiBook 867 from someone and the LCD screen is black. She hooked it up via the FireWire to another Mac and wiped the HD through Target Disk Mode. I would like to reinstall OS X 10.4 on it (I have that version on DVD) but cannot get it to display through the external monitor I set up.
It chimes and goes through the proper power up procedure, but no pic on the screen or external monitor. Any ideas?

Ideas about the display, you mean? Shine a bright light on it while the machine is operating. Is the display image there, just not backlit? If so, and it doesn't brighten up when you adjust the brightness (press the F2 key), the display inverter board is bad and needs to be replaced.
If there's really no display image at all, a) the video cable may be disconnected from the logic board or partly or completely severed; b) the LCD may be bad; c) the GPU on the logic board may be bad; or d) there may be some other major logic board failure. To eliminate one or more of these possibilities, connect an external monitor. If only the desktop background appears on it, press the F7 key to put the monitor in Display Mirroring mode. If that produces a normal or nearly-normal display image with Dock and menu bar, your GPU and logic board are OK and the problem lies in the video cable or its conections (more likely) or the LCD panel (less likely). If the external monitor remains black or blankly blue, gray, etc., your GPU or some other logic board component is gone, and the Tibook is dead for all practical purposes. It will cost more to repair than it will be worth after it's repaired.

Video-iPod Compatible USB 2.0 PCMCIA (PC Card)

I'm getting more than a little frustrated looking for a direct answer to my question:
I am looking for a USB 2.0 PC Card for my TiBook that will give my video iPod full functionality with the laptop.
So far all I can find is what I don't care about: I don't want to hear about minis, shuffles, or nanos. I don't want to hear about PCs, PowerPC towers or PowerBooks with USB 2.0 built in. I don't want to hear about charging - I want to know which card, including model number, that will work completely.
I've already tried an older Belkin card that I borrowed, and a CompUSA card that I am now selling at a loss because it didn't work. Some people have used cards that worked, but don't give a brand and/or model number.
Mac OS X (10.4)

quote > eww: "instead of ranting at us about what you don't want to hear, you could be searching the Tibook forums yourself for "USB 2".
Actually I spent a good deal of time fruitlessly searching these forums for 'usb 2.0' and 'pc card', PCMCIA, etc. hence my frustration. People with PCs for instance, were posting unhelpful things like: "I don't use a Mac but my friend does and he uses a PC Card that works perfectly." People with Minis were posting about charging with firewire. There was just too much irrelevent stuff after a couple hours to hunt through.
quote > eww: "whatever you may mean by "work completely," which you haven't defined at all, may not be precisely what tjk or anyone else understands it to mean".
I was trying to be concise when I said I was, "looking for a USB 2.0 PC Card for my TiBook that will give my video iPod full functionality with the laptop." Sorry if I wasn't clear.
I'll elaborate then: I want to use my 5.5g video iPod with my 500 mhz G4 Titanium PowerBook, including video playback. The TiBook does not come with USB 2.0 factory installed, so video playback doesn't work and file transfers are slow. I tried a 4 year old Belkin USB 2.0 PCMCIA card that my boss loaned me, but the iPod didn't mount. I bought a new card from CompUSA (storebrand), which didn't work either. I have gleaned from these forums that there are cards that work and there are cards that do not, but I haven't found a post or link that precisely says what brand and model these are. Sorry again if that sounds like I am asking for a guarantee of some sort.
I just did a search for tjk's thread as you suggested, and I did see tjk's posts before. It was actually the one I used as an example of my frustraion above.
William the PC Poster:
"But I do have a friend in Calif. that does have a powerbook and I know he has a usb card, used it to charge my ipod... will im him and find out... hold on. "
and
"Ok, here is the scoop, my friend has a powerbook with a usb card, his internal died. (hmmmmm a mac with a problem but he did say that it is as fast as his internal card was and as fast as his g3. He said that it is the same. His Ipod charges as fast as it does on his mainframe. "
he did post this, which was on the right track:
"I did talk to my friend again, and he told me that he bought a card from airnet that was only 14 dollars, and it was a 2.0 but low power. It was also noticably slower then this card, he paid 19 dollars for his belkin and it works great. He got his card while visiting us in Mexico. He said that this one charges his ipod and transfers both video and pictures as well as music at a fast pace. "
But get a load of tjk's final post in the thread, sound familiar?:
"Hi william,
Any chance you know or would find out exactly which PB and card your friend has that apparently syncs at USB2 speed?
Thanks"
That was back in November, I doubt William will be posting back at this late date.

High Definition video requires 1GHz G4 or faster...

iMovie HD 6.0.2 (267)
High Definition video requires 1GHz G4 or faster...
It was not evident that I could not use iMovie 6.0.2 on my TiBook. I don't care about HD, I just want to play around with iMovie. I've lost my initial Install disks after upgrading.
I purchased iLife to be able to just play with iMovie.
I can create a project and import video, not images...The buttons don't work. Pull down menus do. Can't drag clips to timeline...
Did I just waste $80.00?
867 MHz PowerPC G4 TiBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 MB L3 cache, 1 GB SDRAM

Did I just waste $80.00?
No, it's probably not wasted...
So while your Mac may not be able to edit HDV it can
edit the "normal" video recorded by most camcorders.
In other words, iMovie HD can do all the stuff old
versions do, but it can do HDV too.
I actually don't even have a camcorder. I just wanted to import .mov files, etc.
There might be some other problem. Here's some topics
to look at:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=18
52869#1852869
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=206
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Sound issue with TiBook

Hey all,
I have an older TiBook that I received in 2006. In November of last year I upgraded to Leopard. Everything seemed to be working fine until December 23rd when my sound suddenly cut out while watching a YouTube video. Since then my sound cuts out randomly while either watching videos online, or watching a DVD, or playing any computer game. I notice that when I plug my headphones into the jack and then unplug them, the sound comes right back. The only downside of this workaround is I have to do it every 30 seconds to 2 minutes. This is very frustrating. Any suggestions on what else I can do? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the tip. I blew it with the canned air and that seems to work (I watched a whole video without anything cutting out). I'll let you know how it performs after I'm off work
On the airport card issue, is there any reason I wouldn't be able to log in to the wireless g network at my job? Do I need to configure it in any way? I'm kind of new to Macs (I just barely broke out the laptop after two years of neglect) and am not sure how I need to set it up.
Thanks!!

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