PS2 -> TV card -> monitor

[archcommus]

Hooked up a PS2 to my Powercolor Theater 550 Pro via the provided RCA input dongle. Worked fine but got a lag of about 2 seconds rendering playing anything impossible. I know this is possible and people do it all the time, how can I avoid this delay?

 

[necro007]

I don't know if this helps but what software are you using to watch whatever your PS2 is displaying?

I Hook'd up my Xbox to my PC's LCD using my X1800XL and its nice, not bad and almost no loss in frame's or any lag.

I used DScaler.

Thanks to "Evander" and "OvErHeAtInG" for recomending DScaler.

Thats a great program and it has the best video quality i have evere seen for apps like that.

 

[archcommus]

I was using my PVR software, BeyondTV.

Something like DScaler provides excellent quality, but would it help the lag on its own? I read in another thread that lag is more likely with cards with hardware MPEG-2 encoding (mine has this). Why is that?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I was using my PVR software, BeyondTV.

Something like DScaler provides excellent quality, but would it help the lag on its own? I read in another thread that lag is more likely with cards with hardware MPEG-2 encoding (mine has this). Why is that?

Uh, because hardware MPEG2 encoding isn't instantaneous. And there's usually no way to bypass the encoder on hardware encoder boards.

BTV could be adding further delays of its own; I haven't tested to see if it's any worse than something like AMCap or DScaler (I use it as a PVR, so a lag on the inputs is irrelevant).

Generally, if you want to run a game console through a capture card, get a software-encoding card (the really cheap ones that are like $30). Then you can just watch the raw feed without it doing any encoding or post-processing. Or actually lay out the cash for a VGA transcoder.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: archcommus
I was using my PVR software, BeyondTV.

Something like DScaler provides excellent quality, but would it help the lag on its own? I read in another thread that lag is more likely with cards with hardware MPEG-2 encoding (mine has this). Why is that?

Uh, because hardware MPEG2 encoding isn't instantaneous. And there's usually no way to bypass the encoder on hardware encoder boards.

BTV could be adding further delays of its own; I haven't tested to see if it's any worse than something like AMCap or DScaler (I use it as a PVR, so a lag on the inputs is irrelevant).

Generally, if you want to run a game console through a capture card, get a software-encoding card (the really cheap ones that are like $30). Then you can just watch the raw feed without it doing any encoding or post-processing. Or actually lay out the cash for a VGA transcoder.

I'm surprised there's no way to choose not to use the hardware encoding.