Guest Emad Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Hey hey people. I want to use my PS2 on my existing monitor - if I get a Radeon 9200 with Video in, will I just be able to stick it in with a S Video cable to my PC and display it on my monitor? (don't have a telly at uni). Thanks, Emad
Guest meaks Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 You might be able to. But I always thought that you needed a vga adapter to get the ps2 to work on the pc. I think they cost around 30 quid on amazon.
Guest Emad Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 That takes the PS2 and inputs it into the Monitor direct, right? I was thinking of having it connect to the pc via the graphics card as some have video in as well as video out? Makes it easier to plug n play :lol:
Guest siu99spj Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 Depends what type of TV In you have. Most cards with TV in need a tuner (Big metal box or a big metal chip) on the card. You then tune that to the PS2's signal (As you would scan for a TV signal) et voila, working PS2 on PC. However, some of the newer cards with Video in ONLY accept composite, not PAL and that usually requires a conversion from the PS2, as I don't believe they do a composite out. Hope this helps,
Guest Emad Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 PS2 has an S-Video cable you can get for output and the newer graphics cards have s-video in inputs - would this work? Or should I go for something like an All-In-Wonder which has a TV tuner suck in it?
Guest meaks Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 I've had a play with my cheap tv-pci card. I connected the ps2 up via its normal video in, not s-video. It works but it doesnt work very well. Its quite slow, whether this is to do with the fact i have a cheap capture card, i dunno. Preseumably the video-in has to be processed so its a bit slower.
Guest Emad Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 Hmm.. May go with the all in wonder and use my PC as a TiVo too :lol:
Guest MECX Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 ive got a cheap hauppauge WINTV card and it works fine with a PS1 connected to it. you can get them for about £40 now i think (probs less)--you can also get PVR (personal video recorder) verisions as well. :lol:
Guest HelloDave Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 Can't see why it wouldn't work - my VCR plays through my (cheap) capture card no problems; after all it's a PAL capture card and the PS2 (as long as it's UK) has PAL video outputs. Having said that I did try a laptop video out into my capture card and it didn't work very well, but that's probably because the output was slightly non standard and TVs are more forgiving than PCs. The PS2 should be pretty standard though.
Guest siu99spj Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 Depends what you want Emad. Personally I'd get an AIW. Not can you play on PS2, but you can also watch TV. Hide your aerial in a cupboard when the TV inspectors are around and you get free TV too. (As I did :lol:) I'm not overly keen on TiVo, but then my card didn't support it too well, so I'm biased. But most TV cards will support a TV signal fine. And the AIW make very clear pictures, even from crappy, noisy TV signals (Though not too noisy, then it just goes pear shaped). S-Video in? I know cards which do S-Video out but never heard of those which accept it as an input...
Guest HelloDave Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 I know my video capture card accepts both S-Video and composite in, and that cost me a whole £35 :lol: Tip - if you get a BT8xx based capture card (ie the chip it's based on - a lot are, eg BT848) bin the supplied software and use DScaler (www.dscaler.org) to watch TV instead. It's great software, and will clean up video signals a treat, and it's free! For better capture performace on a BT8xx based card you can also try using "BTWinCap" as an alternative driver (http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/) - most budget capture card drivers aren't optimized (to make you buy upgraded s/w I guess!) and BTWinCap will improve performace a fair bit.
Guest Emad Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 Which video capture card have you got Dave? Thanks for the replies everyone - still tempted to get a Radeon so I can use the DVI with my shiney new 17" Samsung TFT :lol:
Guest HelloDave Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 Pinnacle PCTV RAVE - cheapest card I could find at the time! It has zip all features - mono, no radio, crap bundled software, but it works well enough because most TV cards use a BT8xx chip anyway. Obviously you can run the PS2 through your sound card, so the mono audio doesn't matter. According to some reviews i've seen the RAVE card is exactly the same as the standard PCTV card except for the bundled software (and the standard card is twice the price).
Guest jim80b Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 the indo3d gf4 ti has tivo and does svid or comp in and out, and the ps2 standard conector has the compsite connector as standard (u plug it into a scart block to make fake scart) have plugged one into a vid projector and played teken/gt3 on a really big scale tv cards can also be a bit slower to display so not the best for gaming with consoles
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