[derbs]

Hello
My old man needs to be able to mirror the video of his old clamshell iBook on a projector.

It doesn't have a VGA port though. Is there any sort of adaptor that can mirror the video from his firewire port?

Thanks a lot

[wataru]

Are you sure it doesn't have VGA? What about component or S-Video? I've never seen a projector that didn't have at least one of those.

And there is no way to do video over FireWire like you described. My guess is that the projector does have at least one of the connections I mentioned above, but perhaps you didn't notice.

[f1000]

I think he meant that his clamshell iBook doesn't have VGA out.

[wataru]

Originally posted by f1000:
I think he meant that his clamshell iBook doesn't have VGA out.

Well in that case, he's screwed. As far as I know, that is.

[selowitch]

Originally posted by wataru:
Well in that case, he's screwed. As far as I know, that is.

The second-generation clamshell iBook (FireWire) does, however, have composite video out via the AV port. Since that could connect directly to a TV, perhaps there is an adapter that would allow him to connect it to the projector?

[wataru]

Originally posted by selowitch:
The second-generation clamshell iBook (FireWire) does, however, have composite video out via the AV port. Since that could connect directly to a TV, perhaps there is an adapter that would allow him to connect it to the projector?

Of course there is such an adaptor, if he has an AV out port--it would have come with his computer. But we still don't know what kind of iBook he has, or if he meant that the projector has no VGA port.

[selowitch]

Originally posted by wataru:
we still don't know what kind of iBook he has

Yes, we do. There was only one clamshell model with a FireWire port (it also had one USB port); the rest are dual-USB white iBooks.

[BobVB]

Originally posted by wataru:
Of course there is such an adaptor, if he has an AV out port--it would have come with his computer. But we still don't know what kind of iBook he has, or if he meant that the projector has no VGA port.

There was only one model of clamshell with a firewire port. It had composite video out capability through the A/V jack same as the first dual USB iBooks.

http://developer.apple.com/documenta...t00/index.html

I'm not so sure that the composite video cable did come with the iBook - I know it didn't with my first dual USB ice iBook - I had to buy it myself.

The VGA port is probably on the projector, here's hoping it also has composite in AND he can still find one of the A/V cables somewhere.

[wataru]

Well I don't know about the clamshells, but every iBook I've seen came with the AV to VGA adaptor (AV to composite was always a separate item). So if the projector has a VGA port, then he's set.

[f1000]

Not to point out the obvious, but I'm sure derbs already realizes that his iBook has composite video out. Composite video doesn't offer the same high quality as VGA, which is probably why he's looking for a Firewire to VGA adapter.

Moreover, my dual USB iBook did NOT come with an AV connecor to VGA adapter; instead, the dual USB iBook had a separate mini-VGA Video Out port.

[BobVB]

Originally posted by wataru:
Well I don't know about the clamshells, but every iBook I've seen came with the AV to VGA adaptor (AV to composite was always a separate item). So if the projector has a VGA port, then he's set.

The clamshells didn't have a one: that was an innovation that appeared with the first dual USB ice iBooks.

http://developer.apple.com/documenta...y01/index.html

[derbs]

Thanks for your help guys. So you're saying the firewire clamshell iBooks definitely have some sort of a video out port?

f1000 - i didn't realise the iBook had a video out port I spoke to my old man over the phone, and he swore there was nothing that looked like a video port. I guess i'm going to have to go over and show him!

[nJm]

I think what they are saying is that the clamshell/colorfull iBooks don't have VGA output of any kind, but it does have an Audio/Video output via the headphones socket. All you need is to buy that cable from Apple. Here is a photo from their website:

[img] http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/...vcable_125.jpg[/img]

Basically at one end it has what looks like a headphone jack, however it has 3 bands on it, rather than just two. On the other end it has 3xRCA connectors. Red and White for stereo sound and yellow for video.