Need help finding the right TV software for connecting consoles

[Soulchaser]

I have a VisionTek Theater 550 and I'm currently using PowerCinema, which works fine, but what I would like to do is connect my Gamecube so I don't have to use my roomate's TV which is constantly on sports channels. The problem is that PowerCinema always saves the incoming signal to the hard drive before actually displaying it so there is a huge lag period from when I press a button and when it actually displays. I've tried a few other options such as ChrisTV Lite, K!TV, DScaler, and more, but most of them don't support the Theater 550 chip and crash when I try to use them through WDM. ChrisTV works fine with my tv card, but it wouldn't let me select the option to select composite as the incoming video signal. So basically what I'm looking for is a TV program that is compatible with the Theater 550 chip, has no PVR functions or lets you disable them, and lets me use composite video as the signal.

 

[Traire]

Its not a software problem, its the tuner card itself. Teh lag is not because data is being saved to the HD, but because the Theater 550 has a processor on it that is encoding the video from analog to mp2. That processing is what is introducing the lag. If you want to hook up your Gamecube, you dont need a TV tuner, just get a cheap Video input device with S-video or composite inputs.

 

[Soulchaser]

So would a video capture card work? If so, would I need different software for it or would PowerCinema accept input from that, or any other TV software for that matter?

 

[Traire]

A cheap capture card would work fine. For software, all you should need is Media Player Classic or VLC player.