Hello!

Can anyone tell me what I have here? After googling for hours! Well
it's cable with a male RCA video (the plugs are colored yellow) with a
standard USB (a?) plug on the other end. What kind of cable is it?

The only identifying mark is CBL. Which company is that? Do they have
a web site? I couldn't find it!

I connected my video camera out to my computer USB using this cable but
windows XP couldn't recognize the device. Do you know where I can get
a driver for this cable?

This cable may be from a webcam or a security camera. Is there any
reason why I can't use this to capture analog video or watch a DVD
using this cable?

Thank you so much for your help!

lini

On 4/16/2006, tahiti.guy (AT) gmail (DOT) com posted this:
DO NOT connect the cable to anything else until you figure out what it
is!

The odds are good (I'd say no less than 100%) that it is not a computer
or camera cable. You could end up damaging something - if you haven't
already.

USB has four pins. One is the ground (common), two are for signal, and
one is 5V DC. Many USB cables are used to power devices or to charge
their batteries. Five volts in the wrong place can harm a device...

You could get an ohmmeter, determine which pins are connected to which
terminals of the RCA plug, and find a pinout for the USB connector on
the web to guess what this cable is about.

It might even be for a device that uses a USB jack for totally
unrelated things.

The least damaging possibility is that is uses the shell of the RCA as
USB ground and the pin of the RCA as USB signal out from the camera you
mentioned to a computer (contradicting my cry of doom above!). It would
only work (with appropriate drivers) for the device it is meant for,
since obviously there can't be any two-way communication with such a
cable. And of course, in this instance, the cable is a digital
connection.

Gino

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

<tahiti.guy (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

* Drivers are for devices not cables - try the web site of your camera and
look for support and downloads.

* USB does not carry analog signals only digital data and 5 volts DC.

* You need to use the "Add Hardware" application in the Control panel to
allow XP to find the device ie your camera. Check with everything that came
with the camera and there maybe an install disk.

* If you Camera output is USB then you need a USB to USB cable to connect it
to the computer.
XP will recognise it and you don't need a capture card to transfer the file
just the appropriate software.
or
* If your Camera output is composite video ie normally a RCA socket, then
you need a RCA to RCA cable. The computer input to use would be the capture
card video in.

"Netmask" <netmask56NOFLEAS (AT) geemail (DOT) com> wrote

Maybe you are describing RCA brand of USB to CBL (mini) ? and not the
colloquial use of the word RCA connector ie a phono plug hat is also used
for composite video.
The RCA brand of USB to mini CBL are in fact yellow! The Mini CBL plugs
into the camera and the USB into the PC. You will still probably need a
driver for XP for the camera model. Also check and see if your computer XP
has been updated with service pack 2 (SP2). This update to XP also install
quite a few additional drivers for many products.

You can't build a USB-to-serial-port cable out of just wires and
connectors. It is, however, possible to have something that looks
like a cable, with perhaps a lump in the middle or an extra-big
cable hood on one end that functions as one. It has actual electronics
in the lump. I have one that came with a GPS unit.

I suppose it's possible to have a MPEG converter that takes in
video and outputs a MPEG stream on USB. (I have seen these things
on the shelves in stores, but I don't actually know what the thing
looks like it. I thought they were bigger than what would fit in
a cable.) Or it might be a serial-to-USB cable that's supposed
to plug into the MPEG converter box it came with. Or something
completely different.

However, it might BE a device, not just a cable.
If you plug it in, does Windows recognize it as a device? (If it
says "unknown device type", or asks you for a driver disk,
it recognizes it as a device. You won't get such a reaction if
you plug in a USB extension cable).

But a USB device can have analog inputs. Even analog video input.

Gordon L. Burditt

<tahiti.guy (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

- I have punctuated for clarity..

Quote
" connected my video camera out - to my computer USB (in) using this cable.
(see link below)

Windows XP couldn't recognize the device. Do you know where I can get
a driver for this cable? end quote.

I read this as Windows does not recognise the USB device ie the camera.

What is the brand and model number of the camera?

BTW is this the cable ?
http://www.nextag.com/RCA-USB-A-TO--...RE-PRICES-html

In article <124o2q48u59e0ae (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>, gordonb.nngyg (AT) burditt (DOT) org (Gordon Burditt) wrote:
Belkin makes/made one.

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.
process?Merchant_Id=&Product_Id=144533

tahiti.guy (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Plug it into a USB port and measure the power on the(Round?) RCA jack -
is it 5vdc? This could be a simple way to get power for a device (which
you're missing!-)