S-Video and USB over CAT5
Monday, July 11th, 2005My 1980s Videophone project is a little lacking in the cable area. The video display utilizes a coax cable connection to the composite video out on the server, using F to RCA connectors. Since the server is in the basement, using a cable TV connection I have from my office to the basement works great for connecting the video display to the server. The wiring I needed was to connect the S-Video camera on top of the display (a Commodore 1702 monitor in my office) to the server in the basement. I had run a 10 meter stretch of S-Video cable to the basement, but that didn’t cut it. I wanted to use those network jacks I have in my office next to the cable TV jacks. Something came to mind:
Tony's Wiring Rule # 1: You can get almost anything to run over CAT5.
