I’m trying to get around having to buy an inferior-quality TV to play my Gamecube and PS2 on, when I’ve got a lovely 17" LCD computer monitor attached to a PC with a composite input on it’s video card.
I do not know the make of the card, but it has the Conexant 23880 chipset. That’s about all I know about it, it came with the PC and I can’t find much else out.
I’m running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, and it has a Gaming Input option. When I turn the console on and plug it into the inputs, it doesn’t work. I just get a blank screen.
However, when I run windows movie maker and select the card as the input, I get the game displaying, albeit in a very small preview window!
I do not have any other suitable software for controlling the inputs (I think), none came with the card and I cannot find any on t’internet.
So my question is; does anyone know (preferably using, therefore tested) of any software that enables the user to display a composite input from a video card full-screen (for windows)?
Are you sure that’s a composite input? Most likely it’s an output, most video cards don’t have an input, but many have an s-video or RCA output to display things on a tv.
Sorry, it’s my tv tuner card, not my video card. So definately an input. As I said before, I have managed to get the video to display, but only in a small preview box!
I had seen these previously via another internet search, but several forum discussions that google turned up seemed to say that the quality when using a tuner card and software is much better than something like this.
I did try using a piece of software called DScaler, but I cannot seem to get it to work!
Most TV viewing software will do this, and there are quite a few freebies out there. If DScaler doesn’t work, you could try VirtualVCR (Tools/Devices/Video Source to select composite input). Works for me.
I seem to recall the old Apple monitors had composite inputs, and they carried a television signal very nicely (much more sharply than a TV). You might be able to pick up one for $10 at the Salvation Army. Make sure it’s full-colour and not amber or green. They’re small, though.