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.
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 [email protected] 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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I bought what's called a game bridge off of woot a year or so ago, and it mostly does the trick. Essentially, it's just a USB TV tuner card, but I don't have a problem with delat. However, I have never been able to get the sound working under Ubuntu, but I admit this could be because of my sound configuration, and not due to the game bridge hardware. I've never had need to investigate further, so I can't say.
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On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:58 -0500, Philip Dorr wrote:
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 [email protected] 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. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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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"
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 [email protected] 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" _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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