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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 3:26 pm
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rsolomon
 
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Originally Posted by rsolomon
it will be a while before I get a chance to poke around this beastie.
Took a little longer than I expected, but here you go.

DISCLAIMER - all this is presented for informational purposes only, this is what I found on one cable sample using my aging eyes and a multimeter. I take no responsibility for your usage or misusage of the information, etc, etc, etc....


The seat end of the cable is a 9 pin "mini-DIN" male connector - of course there's no official DIN standard for 9 pins, so there are several flavors. This appears to be the one Wikipedia calls "9b":


Code:
1 - Composite Video 	(Dock Pin 8)
2 - A/V Ground 		(Dock Pin 2)
3 - Audio Right		(Dock Pin 3)
4 - A/V Ground		(Dock Pin 2)
5 - USB Data+		(Dock Pin 27)
6 - USB Data-		(Dock Pin 25)
7 - Audio Left		(Dock Pin 4)
8 - USB/Serial Ground	(Dock Pin 11 & 16)
9 - USB 5 Volts		(Dock Pin 23)
I intend to try and get some male and female connectors to make a "virtual seat" and then a generic A/V input cable to prove out the theory.

Graphical view (Thanks to Ripper3785 for the pointer!):


Richard

Last edited by rsolomon; Jul 26, 2009 at 5:33 pm Reason: Added graphical view
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