Video Tuner Problem

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what software are you using?

the newegg link isnt working so i dont know what card youre using but i use VirtualVCR (freeware from sourceforge) and that works beaut. image quality isnt as good as on a good ol' CRT television but hey, image quality wasnt the reason you moved to the compy now is it?

see how that goes for you
 
I have had this problem and unfortunately never found a good solution. Video tuners are just not made for video games. They have an inherent lag due to the conversion (and in some cases compression) that the card does. In some (like the $200 one I bought) this lag was up to 3-4 seconds and makes the game completely un-playable. I returned that one and went back to a $60 USB one that has worse quality, but the software does less work and so the lag is cut to just a fracton of a second. In a game like GT4 where precise control is necessary, this is still unacceptable.

The idea was to not have to buy a TV for my dorm room. The tuner worked fine for watching TV, since it doesn't really matter if there is a lag, but when I got GT4 I wound up having to buy a 14-inch-er anyway. I now only use the video card to capture replays, when real-time control is not crucial.

If you find a solution to this problem, or a video card that does not suffer from it, please let us know!
 
I use an old hauppauge win tv card.

The video isn't as smooth as using a TV, nor as crisp, but it works. I have looked at getting a better card as this one seems to suffer from interference a little, but most new ones have this ~2 second delay.

Other solutions to this problem are to get a TV converter that sits between your PS2 and the monitor or get a monitor that can take an s-video or composite input. Both of these options have proven a little expensive and you'll have to return to the TV card to record videos.
 
If you want to save space, get an lcd tv. Or, get a monitor with a built in tv tuner. Same basic idea, but the monitor with tv tuner tends to work out a bit cheaper. We've got a samsung 17inch lcd monitor with tv tuner, and it's great! 1 scart socket, sockets for the red yellow and while phono leads in the side, and svideo socket, and a bog standard monitor port. Works great. If you want to o a screen capture, put it on replay. Or, for us people who can't be bothered to buy a tv card, use a video camera :lol:
 
phat_pengiun
If you want to save space, get an lcd tv. Or, get a monitor with a built in tv tuner. Same basic idea, but the monitor with tv tuner tends to work out a bit cheaper. We've got a samsung 17inch lcd monitor with tv tuner, and it's great!
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I also recently got a Samsung 710MP LCD TV (17 in) and am very happy with it. 👍
 
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I also recently got a Samsung 710MP LCD TV (17 in) and am very happy with it. 👍
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That's the one! The speaker quality isn't up to much though i find.
 
phat_pengiun
That's the one! The speaker quality isn't up to much though i find.
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Yeah, they are utter crap IMO. I feed my computer into it and pull off the "headphone out" from the monitor into a better set of computer speakers. That way when I change inputs from computer to TV the audio changes with it. Works pretty well. I also got a universal remote for it, because the buttons on that little credit card thing make it too hard to channel surf.
 
Guess is common I thought it was just me. GT4 isn't a problem since I'll always have replays. I'll guess I'll record my other game sessions, and plug my VCR into it, and record. Anyways, when I was recording the video, it didn't record any sound. Any solution?
 
That would explain it then. There's not much point if they don't transmit the sound to the pc. Buy an adaptor from an electronics shop that changes two phono leads to one 3.5mm jack. Attach the audio leads you want the audio from, and plug the other end into your microphone socket in your pc. Then change your audio input device on your capture sotware to whatever your microphone socket is called. Usually something like "advance ac19 audio". Or line in. I think that should work, providing your software can change the location of the audio. Give it a try.

You can get the adaptors from most electronics stores. If you're in the UK, they sell them in B&Q - www.diy.com
 

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