Composite Video into Component

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1

I want to convert composite video coming off a cheap camera into component video to go into a cheap monitor with a $3 nano instead of a 20$ converter box, is that possible? and if it is how do I do it? All I can seem to find is how to output Composite from the Arduino.

2

What do you mean, component video? VGA?

How good are your programming skills? How much do you already know about video?

3

I do sorta mean VGA, but it's really Component RCA, with plugs for Red, blue and green. I know composite video has all the signals combined into one, but I don't know how to read the composite signal, nor output the signals I need.

4

TheRobotGuy:
I do sorta mean VGA, but it's really Component RCA, with plugs for Red, blue and green. I know composite video has all the signals combined into one, but I don't know how to read the composite signal, nor output the signals I need.

Did you do any research?

5

Some, but all I read seems to direct me away from the Arduino (to the 20$ boxes) or outputting (or creating, which doesn't help) a different signal type then I need.

6

The Arduino is not fast enough to do this. What sort of video is it? PAL or NTSC?

A $20 sounds like a good deal for something ready built, considering what has to be done.

7

Some information that might be useful from the user manual:
Resolution 480 TVL Lines
Effective pixels NTSC: 510(H) x 492(V)
Electronic Shutter Time 1/60 - 1/150,000 sec

8

While NTSC ( Never Twice the Same Colour ) is a bit simpler to decode than PAL it is essentially the same. Two colour diffrence signals are quadrature modulated at just a tad over 4MHz, so using an Arduino running at a 16MHz clock is just not going to cut it.
This chip might do it for you:-

ADV7280.PDF (451 KB)

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TheRobotGuy:
Some information that might be useful from the user manual:
Resolution 480 TVL Lines
Effective pixels NTSC: 510(H) x 492(V)
Electronic Shutter Time 1/60 - 1/150,000 sec

Shutter speed is utterly irrelevant.

To put some numbers into context, the colour burst (which you have to sync to) is a minimum of just 36 16MHz clock cycles long.