recording video game system on laptop

77fordtruckman · #1 11-20-2009, 09:29 PM

I am trying to hook up a video game system through composite and/or rf to my computer and am having lots of problems. I am using an angel usb tv tuner on a laptop with windows 7. I have tried dozens of programs and the only one that worked was Avs video recorder, but there is a 1 second delay which is no good for games. does anyone know of a tv viewer program with no delay besides dshader? dshader doesn't work with my video card for some reason.

#2 11-21-2009, 01:10 AM

What software wasn't able to record from your TV Tuner and what were the reasons for that?

Have you tried Windows Media Center, Media Portal, GB-PVR, MythTV?

Have you tried to contact AVS support to fix the problem with the delay in recordings? The delay problem can be fixed in many cases without re-compressing videos. What video codec and container do you use when recording from your TV Tuner?

77fordtruckman · #3 11-21-2009, 01:42 AM

I am not trying to record anything, only view it. windows media center works for a second and then says no signal, I could not get media portal to recognize the channel and I couldn't do anything with gb-pvr, it won't even let me go into live tv mode even after setting it up. Probably because I could not get it to recognize any channels for some reason, it should recognize that there is something on channel 3 but it doesn't. I could not get the a/v inputs to work with any of those either. didn't try mythTV I guess I will try that next.

No I didn't try contacting AVS support, my experience with that sort of thing is that you get nowhere, I do not see anything about a video codec or container but most of the settings are grayed out so I can't change them, I have have messed around with all the ones I can. I never would have thought that such a simple task as playing a game console on my laptop screen would be nearly, if not totally impossible.

#4 11-24-2009, 08:44 AM

You may also try VLC...

77fordtruckman · #5 11-24-2009, 08:13 PM

tried vlc, it game me an error- i think it said something like could not connect to capture device. I could not find a windows version of mythtv, I am using windows 7

#6 11-25-2009, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by 77fordtruckman

tried vlc, it game me an error- i think it said something like could not connect to capture device. I could not find a windows version of mythtv, I am using windows 7

MythTV is available for Linux and Mac OS. You can install it as a part of MythBuntu, it will probably won't be easy to install and set up it, so it is better to find out first whether it supports your TV tuner.