Need some help on AV, specifically, using my monitor as a TV

[Philip Dorr]

if you are attempting to use a gaming console on your monitor you can
usually buy a VGA cable for the console and use that.
do NOT use a TV tuner if you want to play games, because the delay time is
to much (at least in my experience).


On 4/15/08, Andrew Thoreson <febaen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is kinda hard to sum up neatly, so I'm sorry the title is somewhat
> confusing. Basically, I'm wondering if it would be possible to hook up
> devices that would normally go to a TV to my computer and then watch
> them on that.
>
> For example, hook up my Wii, and then have the video from that show up
> in a window (or fullscreen), so that I can use my monitor instead of my
> TV, and I can take screenshots of it. If this is possible, what kind of
> hardware would I need to take a video-in signal, and what programs would
> be able to have it stay in a window and/or run it in fullscreen? Also,
> potentially, record video.
>
> I've seen some distros that are made to function as DVRs/media devices,
> but I'd prefer to keep my Ubuntu install that I have now. I've seen some
> talk of setting up TV tuners, but those seem to just receive broadcast
> signals, which isn't really what I'm looking for.
>
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