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

[James Ownby]

IIRC, a tv tuner will do fine. Be sure to avoid the PVRs though, which do
have the delay in the signal. For a PVR, which is not what you want,
hardware compression is preferred vs software. In addition, the delay that
is noticed with a PVR, if I am not mistaken...it's been some time since I've
researched this, is due to the technology which allows you to
fastforward/rewind the video, hence you are not viewing the feed/stream in
realtime.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Andrew Thoreson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you want to use gaming consoles... be sure that you do NOT get a "TV
> tuner"
> card or such, especially if they advertise hardware compression of any
> sort.
> The overhead from the compression (usually not optional) will delay the
> video
> and give you a "lag" effect, even if you aren't playing online. I believe
> the
> kind of card you need for this is called a "frame grabber" or similar.
> Even
> still, I'd check reviews to be sure it doesn't have a significant delay.
> If you want to take screenshots, you also need to be sure that you have
> hardware acceleration disabled, as this can interfere with the screen
> grab.
> With mplayer, this would be "-vo x11"
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