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How To: Convert an iBook AV Cable to an iPod AV Cable

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If you happen to have an old iBook AV cable laying around, you can put it to good use as an iPod AV cable by swapping the video and video ground (sleeve and ring closest to the sleeve respectively). Flickr member Mark Question has made a diagram and posted it to help illustrate the conversion.

There are two methods  to modding your cable:

  1. Mod the iBook AV cable by cutting it open and swapping the video and the video ground.
  2. Alternatively, you can preserve the iBook-ness of the cable and make an adapter out of an RCA extension cable. Make a crossover cable where you swap the two wires in the middle of the RCA cable.
[thanks Mark Question and Eliot]
 

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