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Questions tagged [composite-video]

For questions pertaining to using or troubleshooting the composite video of a Raspberry Pi.

Composite video is an analogue video signal used mainly by televisions. Composite video uses an RCA cable (or some of the ways of the 3.5mm 4-pole Jack Socket on later Pis), and along with HDMI and the official Digital Serial Interface (DSI) L.C. Display is one of the Raspberry Pi's three video outputs.

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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 these categories. Home PC Smart home touch screen…
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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 The control touch screen (like a 3~8"…
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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 Google. The front panel of TV has 3 inputs,…
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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 to accept video into the PI..? If not, can anyone…
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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 picture overflows the screen, but playing with…
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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 page, menus etc. But when I actually try to watch a…
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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 comment out hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and uncomment…
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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 viewable in the basement. I believe that Rasbmc/XBMC…
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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?

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 of my problem and fix? Thank you very much.
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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 Raspberry Pi specification. So I modified…
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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, analog_gain, brightness, contrast, sharpness values…
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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 HDMI port. Now imagine you have only an RCA…
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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 for text characters and logo. However, NTSC…
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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'm using to output composite video: I've edited…
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