Videogame consoles (1 Viewer)

[crazedweasel]

Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to effectively use Mediaportal to play videogame consoles? I've searched the forums and found a few threads on it, but nothing useful; in fact, the most useful thing I've found is a post that mentions temporarily disabling the hardware encoder, but doesn't say how. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to get this to work - I'm in a dorm and don't have enough room for a decent tv. If it's not feasible, do you have any suggestions for what to do otherwise?

Oh, and by the way, my tv tuner is a Hauppage pvr150.

 

[reagan+carter]

I'm really sorry but it's quite hard to figure out what your actual problem is.
Do you want to connect your game console on your TV card and use it within the MediaPortal TV plugin?
If this is the case then I don't see how it is much different than connecting an external set-top box to your TV card. A lot of people seem to succesfully use that kind of configuration. Maybe try to broaden your forums searches. I have no clue about the PVR150 but I was once able to use a set-top box with MediaPortal (when the analog part of my Videomate DVB-T200 was still supported). I simply used a SCART connector and configured a plain CVBS channel.

 

[Marcusb]

I think you mean that there is a delay of a second or two between something happening and that being displayed on your tv.
This has happened to a lot of people and there usually isn't a perfect solution I'm afraid. You can try turning off TimeShifting but apart from that maybe you should just try different software for displaying your console on your Monitor. From what I have seen MP seems to be worse at this than some other software.

 

[crazedweasel]

Sorry, what I mean is that I want to plug the console into my TV card and be able to play it on my monitor. My main problem is that there's a couple-second lag between what I do on the game and when it shows up on the screen.


^^ Exactly.
Unfortunately, I have tried turning off timeshifting, using other applications (even WinTV 2000) and have had the same result with all of them.

 

[roosterx]

this is a problem with your tv card, it was never ment to be showing any signal without first saving it to your hd, and then displaying it on screen(your 2 sec delay), if you get an old tv card without HW encode you should be fine though, ex. are the old bt878 based tv cards.
I know there has been some talk about the possibilitys of bypassing the recording, but it is a long time since i've seen something about that, maybe just disabling timeshift will do the work,

 

[jawbroken]

In the end you will always be better off connecting the console straight to your TV. Is there any reason why you don't just do this? With a capture card you are always going to have to do signal->digitise->display/scale->output->decode at TV, in basic terms, which is always going to take longer than just decoding at your TV, no matter what you do.

 

[dhrto]

jawbroken:
I think crazedweasel doesn't have a tv, but just a computer monitor, which does not accept composite inputs.