AIW Component/S-Video Input for Gaming

[artemicion]

I've got an AIW x1900. I wanted to play my PS2 on it since I don't own a TV, and my 22" widescreen LCD and 5.1 speakers would probably be better than any TV I could afford. However, much to my dismay, when I tried hooking my PS2 up, I noticed a slight delay, presumably because the card is doing something to process the signal. The result is you press a button, but you don't see the result on screen until a fraction of a second later (I would guess a .25-.5 second delay), and this is with Multimedia Center's OnDemand recording thing disabled (with it enabled the delay is much more significant). It basically makes action games extremely difficult to play and other games irritating.

Is there something I can do to get rid of this delay? Or is it inevitable? ATI support is . . . unhelpful.

Thanks

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Your monitor doesn't happen to have an s-video input on it, does it?

That would be the ideal solution to this problem. I don't have any good ideas for you about trying to reduce the delay you're getting running through your card.

 

[JamesM3M5]

Noticed the same thing on a AIW 9600 AGP. Significant delay, never tried to do anything about it. Did you ever figure anything out?

 

[clickynext]

I've looked for a solution to this for about two years, and have found that there is no known solution using the ATI MMC software. However, mine works just fine if I use the AMCap software instead.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card with S-video and composite inputs, and it had a slight delay to it too. It was much, much worse, if I enabled de-interlacing support. So at best, you are looking at a 1/60th of a sec delay (one field), or a 1/30th of a sec delay (two fields, when de-interlace is enabled). There may even still be larger delays due to other factors. Dont forget the at least one-frame delay in your LCD output device as well.

 

[artemicion]

Tried AMCap, and it actually works pretty well! Thanks!

So it's obviously a software issue (hopefully ATI will fix it but I doubt it). Is there any other video capture software besides AMCap that'll do the trick? Not a fan of AMCap shutting down on me after 30 minutes asking me to "register"

Or even better, is there a way to tweak/hack the ATI software to do the trick?

I'm so angry at ATI for including all the fancy input adapters and not writing the necessary software that some part-time programmer could obviously write. ><

 

[clickynext]

As far as I know there's no way to tweak the program to make it work perfectly. Once upon a time, the ATI MMC software worked just fine and didn't have any delay or quality issues. Then they decided to add some "features" (ie. time lag, higher cpu usage).

I think I got my copy of AMCap out of an old webcam package so it didn't shut down. Maybe you can find one somewhere too...