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Post by ripper713 on Oct 28, 2006 10:51:31 GMT -5
Since it is a rather nice card, I hope someday someone will prove me wrong. Unfortunitly, I tried every setting I could think of and could not get rid of the delay (I was at least not knowingly using a pause type feature). Additionally, I searched the web for ways around the delay and found several messageboards with posts saying that it was not possible. It does not seem that far fetched that the delay can not be removed because playing games with a tv tuner is probably not the intended application. I agree that these types of cards are primarily designed for DVR and thus the delay would not be noticed. After all, how many people normally watch multiple televisions all set to the same channel at the same time? Anyway, even if the delay could be removed from this card, I just wanted to warn people in case they get a card where the delay cannot be removed. Like most people on this board, I have come across my fair share of poorly designed hardware and am no longer surprised by horrible design decisions. ATI video drivers are a perfect example.
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Post by patrickp on Oct 28, 2006 13:26:59 GMT -5
Well, looking at the Hauppage forums, ripper713, it looks like you can turn off the Live Preview (which is what causes the delay), but you have to do it by editing your registry. This means that the card _is_ physically capable of ouputting video/audio directly to the PCI bus (I couldn't imagine that it wouldn't) but the drivers/software don't support it. How naff can you get? Well, yes, I'm using an ATI 9700 Pro AIW ATM and I don't like their more recent drivers, but at least I _can_ find drivers and software that suit me, and from ATI. Amongst other things, direct video/audio output to the PCI bus is the default, and I need to select the preview mode if I want to use it; AIR their current drivers actually _do_ introduce a delay due to the way that those drivers handle digital audio. Actually, 'poorly designed hardware' and poorly written/thought out drivers are entirely different things - you seem to be confusing them. In the case case of ATI and, I suspect, your Hauppage card, there's nothing wrong with the hardware design - your hardware is actually perfectly capable of directly outputting video and audio, with no delay - but it's the drivers that are the problem.
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Post by Heihachi_73 on Oct 30, 2006 4:34:30 GMT -5
My only question about (some) video input cards, is they tend to state what resolution they want to display, like 352x288, or hard coded to half of your desktop screen size. Are there any cards which don't do this, and detect what size the input is? I've been looking for a video (or still image) capture card for quite a few games, namely for comparison to emulators! I refuse to accept that a screenshot of a NES is half the size of your desktop resolution, and blurred.
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