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USB TV Tuner for gaming?

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Agent Icebeezy

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Who here uses one for playing their games on their PC/laptop? I'm currently looking for one now. My only stickler is that it displays in 16:9. However, it seems like all of them do. I just don't know about performance, hence the thread. If anyone can help with testimonials, that would be great. Thanks in advance. :D
 
Every usb tuner you'll find on the market will add at least a quarter second of delay into the feed if not more. If you want to try out any tuner, buy it someplace you can return it without trouble. Personally, I suggest emulation or mame for a laptop. =P
 
hooo said:
Every usb tuner you'll find on the market will add at least a quarter second of delay into the feed if not more. If you want to try out any tuner, buy it someplace you can return it without trouble. Personally, I suggest emulation or mame for a laptop. =P
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With USB2.0, why would there be a delay? The transfer speed is 480mbps. I have the Raedon all in wonder on my desktop, there is no delay with that. That is my wife's PC though, I have a laptop.
 
it's called buffering, and yeah it sucks.
i use an ATI all in wonder usb 2.0 and it has the buffering issue.
However there was no buffering when I tried a winamp tv plugin, but I also had no sound.
So i believe it's a software issue but nobody's made a reliable fix for it.
 
I bought a USB2 device from Hauppauge for this very purpose when I was away for work last week. As others have mentioned, there is a delay which makes playing games near impossible. There was some hacked app that did allow you to eliminate this delay though.

Still, the results weren't satisfactory and I returned the device the next day.
 
So, even having 2GB of ram and a 256MB graphics card still won't eliminate the buffering?
 
well my tv tuner is great for like, turn-based strategy games, but I could never use it to play any realtime games...
if someone knows of a fix to get rid of buffering, i'd love to hear it.
 
I have the ATI USB 2.0 TV Tuner, and if you user DScaler, there's no delay. It's a software problem, not a hardware problem; USB 2.0 is more than capable of no delay. Unfortunately, my screen is all glitchy and the sound crackles. I dunno if that's my computer or the hardware or what.
 
Dark10x and I fucked around with D-scaler on the s-vid in on his laptop. He is always insisting that the multitude of D-scaler settings escape him, but there was definitely a delay during our experiments.
 
Agent Icebeezy said:
So, even having 2GB of ram and a 256MB graphics card still won't eliminate the buffering?
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I'd be willing to bet that having 4GB of ram and a 512MB graphics card wouldn't eliminate it.
I have a $30 ATI TV Wonder pci card that does lag, but makes me want to gouge my eyes out because of the quality.
 
eXxy said:
I have the ATI USB 2.0 TV Tuner, and if you user DScaler, there's no delay. It's a software problem, not a hardware problem; USB 2.0 is more than capable of no delay. Unfortunately, my screen is all glitchy and the sound crackles. I dunno if that's my computer or the hardware or what.
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Great, I was leading towards the ATI one anyways, I'm a fan of their work. I shall get this tuner soon, thanks
 
I think processor and bus speed and the main factors. I have a Leadtech Winfast 2000 and I noticed a light improvement when I got a new slightly faster mobo and cpu. Make sure you set Dscaler to 100% cpu usage and kill every program possible to free up bandwidth.
 
Gek54 said:
I think processor and bus speed and the main factors. I have a Leadtech Winfast 2000 and I noticed a light improvement when I got a new slightly faster mobo and cpu. Make sure you set Dscaler to 100% cpu usage and kill every program possible to free up bandwidth.
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Thanks
 
Speaking of capture cards, does anybody have a clue why my AIW GFX/capture card won't display video after passing all the tests in the ATI software check program? It's bugging me, i've deleted and reinstall the drivers and multimedia suite many times, checked the wires and connection to the motherboard, and i still can't find a remedy. The sound comes through as clear as a bell, but just no video. Help me...

The card is AGP based if that helps.





And don't mention ATI support because they're useless. :)
 
I just wish I knew what caused the weird screen glitching and audio crackling. I'm wondering if it's the Omega ATI drivers for my video card I'm using, but that seems weird.
 
Intervideo WinDVR 3.0 will allow you to play uninterrupted. No buffering. I just played F-Zero GX on it and I came in first place. This is great!
 
I couldn't get my ATI USB 2.0 TV Tuner to initialize on my comp :/
I installed it and eveything but whenever I try to use the damn thing, the selfchecker says DMA for laptop DVD drive isn't activated...
 
eXxy said:
Mine's in a USB port into the computer, not a hub. Would a hub work better?
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Sorry, I'll clarify myself. My laptop has 4 USB ports, I put the cord into one of the 4 and it started the installation shortly afterwards. I then ran catalyst for their drivers
 
Agent Icebeezy said:
Sorry, I'll clarify myself. My laptop has 4 USB ports, I put the cord into one of the 4 and it started the installation shortly afterwards. I then ran catalyst for their drivers
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You ran the catalyst drivers for ATI Wonder USB? Or did you installed these drivers?



https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1166

edit: Hmmm linking not working. Going direct. Did you installed these in their respective order?

TV WONDER USB 2.0 Drivers
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/tvw-usb2-5-01-6317.exe

DAO / MDAC
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/9-08_mmc_uci.exe

Multimedia Center
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/9-08_mmc_enu.exe
 
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