Installing headrest monitors to OEM panasonic DVD player in 2004 denali xl

[Bridger1369]

I am new here and am looking at installing headrest monitors in our denali xl. Problem is I want to connect them to the OEM ceiling mounted DVD player. There are several wires that run from the DVD player to the flip down screen. Has anyone done this before? What wire do I connect to? What if all the two headrest screens have is a s-video cable or a RCA video cable? I don't care about sound to the monitors just video. HELP!

 

[carcrz]

if you just want video sounds to me like you need a video distributor, so you would run the
video out from the DVD player to the distributors video in then to the monitors video in........ hope this helps

 

[Bridger1369]

So wherewould I get a video distributor that is compatable with the OEM DVD player. The problem is the video wire coming from the DVD player to the OEM flip down scree is just a wire. So how do I turn that into a RCA adapter? Or could I take the video input RCA jack and re wire it to be a video output? Does this make sense?

 

[carcrz]

can you unplug the video wire from the flip down or is it hard wired to the monitor?

 

[Bridger1369]

It is hard wired into a 12 pin conector. Seems like someone would make an adapter for this.

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Sorry

It is hard wired into the video monitor. Connector on the DVD player side

 

[carcrz]

you may need to go see a car audio store and see what they got to tap into that video signal, am sure they got an adapter for it

 

[NathanJax]

Cut a 10ft to 12ft rca at one end...

Take your tv/dvd down...

It will look like this...



Grab the blue wire and tap into it carefully...



That will be the positive or inside RCA wire. Then just take one of the small screws off the dvd player and run a wire to it via a round wire connector. That will be the ground.

 

[waxworkz]

Cut a 10ft to 12ft rca at one end...

Take your tv/dvd down...

It will look like this...



Grab the blue wire and tap into it carefully...



That will be the positive or inside RCA wire. Then just take one of the small screws off the dvd player and run a wire to it via a round wire connector. That will be the ground.

sounds about right. but i would look into a video booster, running 3 monitors off a factory feed might not be the best idea. i just like to be extra careful with stuff sorry

 

[Bridger1369]

Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for. Is the video booster necessary?

 

[ScottyBoy]

You can possibly get away with not using a booster, but the booster wouldn't hurt anything only improve the signal.