[MEncoder-users] Viewing while capturing

[Martijn van Beurden]

Op 11-08-10 19:11, Stroller schreef:
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> On 10 Aug 2010, at 17:42, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
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>> As I'm messing around with my TV capture card I was wondering wether 
>> I can see what I'm capturing with a latency as low as possible. The 
>> problem is that I want to capture the analog output of an XBox 360, 
>> but I don't have a analog splitter for the signal, so I have to view 
>> it on the PC that is capturing, I think.
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> I have read claims that no capture card can offer latency low enough 
> for playing video games enjoyably and without lag. Of course this will 
> depend upon what the player considers acceptable. I believe this is 
> particularly the case in games of the "Street Fighter" genre, in which 
> a lag of tens of milliseconds (??) may be unacceptable.
Well, I don't have problems with it. Yes, there is a latency, but it is 
not disturbing, at least not for me.
> If you're just messing around, enjoying spending your time playing 
> with mencoder and trying to optimise is performance then please excuse 
> me for interrupting the discussion, but if you have a practical 
> purpose for doing this then a VGA splitter may be a cheap investment.
Yup, it isn't really neccesary to get this working, just messing around. 
Of course a hardware solution is more practical, but a software solution 
is definitely easier to work with and is cool.