Goron_3 Posted December 12, 2006 Posted December 12, 2006 Can anyone explain to me how to play a console on a laptop/PC monitor? I'm interested in playing my GC on it. Also, try and include the price of what it will cost me. Thanks in advance
Cube Posted December 12, 2006 Posted December 12, 2006 - K-World USB TV Card Around £20 - Included software doesn't work - DScaler recommended - 50Hz only - Rubbish upscaling to screen resolution - Widescreen works - A pain to set up - Audio doesn't want to work - you will need to connect that to something else. edit: Screenshot: http://img4.picsplace.to/img4/27/ZeltaTP_0001.jpg
McPhee Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 look for either a Black Gold or Hauppauge TV card. Both of those are good manufacturers, Black Gold are the best.
Emasher Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 is there one that works with mac for under 50 canadian. i'd love to play tp on my power book g4 since its a widescreen laptop.
Bogbas Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 - DScaler recommended edit: Screenshot: http://img4.picsplace.to/img4/27/ZeltaTP_0001.jpg I tried that dscaler and the video quality was really fugly. Can't the card use directshow? Vlc and media player classic produces better quality on both of my cards(GPU's composite-in and a tuner cards composite-in). Here's a pic from media player classic: And here's why it's not good to run PAL60 on composite: It's a bit smoother, but the colors look terrible. If you want to know how those look in fullscreen just save the pics and upscale them to your monitors resolution in photoshop or similar. Note that the pictures themselves are (almost...)4:3 as my monitor isn't widescreen.
Cube Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 I tried that dscaler and the video quality was really fugly. Can't the card use directshow? Vlc and media player classic produces better quality on both of my cards(GPU's composite-in and a tuner cards composite-in). Thanks, that's much better. Have you got any ideas on making Media Player Classic better at upscaling to fullscreen?
Bogbas Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 Thanks, that's much better. Have you got any ideas on making Media Player Classic better at upscaling to fullscreen? There's the play-->filters-->'your capture card's name here'--> properties. On default the video loads on 720*288 which is pretty flat. I choose 720*576 from a drop-down menu. Usually I just input this dshow:// :dshow-vdev="" :dshow-adev="" :dshow-size="" :dshow-caching=0 :dshow-chroma="" :dshow-fps=59.000000 :dshow-config :no-dshow-tuner :dshow-tuner-channel=0 :dshow-tuner-country=0 :dshow-tuner-input=0 :dshow-video-input=-1 :dshow-audio-input=-1 :dshow-video-output=-1 :dshow-audio-output=-1 to VLC. It pops up a couple of device settings dialogs, and on one of those there's the resolution option. Most of the settings above are useless, but I haven't had the time to tidy it up. But one setting that definitely matters is :dshow-caching=0 Without it the video output lags 1/5 of a second. MPC does have nice shader effects to deinterlace and sharpen the image. But I find VLC easier and quicker to set up.
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