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Author Topic: console gaming works well with MC on Vista  (Read 1020 times)

rjm

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console gaming works well with MC on Vista
« on: May 07, 2007, 11:49:06 pm »

My son has a Wii and a PS2 which we connect through his computer so he can use his lcd monitor & speakers for both computing and console gaming.

Until recently his configuration was XP with an ATI All-in-Wonder (AIW). We could not use either the ATI software or MC to display his console games because of the PVR delay introduced by the AIW. I ended up finding a little utilty called AMCap that displayed his console games without a delay. (As an aside and not relevant to this discussion, I will mention that TV quality using MC and the AIW was unaccepable).

This weekend I upgraded him to Vista Home Premium. I had to purchase a Hauppauge PVR-150 tv tuner because the AIW is not (and will not be) supported on Vista. Luckily the graphics card chunk of the AIW works well on Vista so I did not need to buy a new graphics card.

Now, how to connect his console game to the computer?
 - The AMCap utility does not work in Vista.
 - The Hauppage software is junk and did not work.
 - Microsoft's Media Center does not support displaying a console game.

So I bought an Adaptec Gamebridge (which converts video to USB) and confirmed it worked well on XP for connecting his console without a delay - but I did not read the fine print on the Adaptec site and found out after several hours of fiddling that it does not work on Vista. :(

Tonight I installed JRiver MC and guess what?
- console games are displayed very well with no delay
- and tv quality is very good.

So in summary, console gaming on Vista is another useful application for MC.

Well done JRiver.
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Re: console gaming works well with MC on Vista
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2007, 06:37:50 am »

Thanks very much for the report and congratulations on your success!
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