<div>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.</div>
<div>do NOT use a TV tuner if you want to play games, because the delay time is to much (at least in my experience).<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/15/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Thoreson</b> <<a href="mailto:febaen@gmail.com">febaen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This is kinda hard to sum up neatly, so I'm sorry the title is somewhat<br>confusing. Basically, I'm wondering if it would be possible to hook up<br>
devices that would normally go to a TV to my computer and then watch<br>them on that.<br><br>For example, hook up my Wii, and then have the video from that show up<br>in a window (or fullscreen), so that I can use my monitor instead of my<br>
TV, and I can take screenshots of it. If this is possible, what kind of<br>hardware would I need to take a video-in signal, and what programs would<br>be able to have it stay in a window and/or run it in fullscreen? Also,<br>
potentially, record video.<br><br>I've seen some distros that are made to function as DVRs/media devices,<br>but I'd prefer to keep my Ubuntu install that I have now. I've seen some<br>talk of setting up TV tuners, but those seem to just receive broadcast<br>
signals, which isn't really what I'm looking for.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kclug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kclug@kclug.org">Kclug@kclug.org</a><br><a href="http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug">http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug</a><br>
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