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I am having a really hard time getting this to work. I have the Nintendo Wii, a computer and WinTV PVR-150 card. Problem is, it is not working.

To be honest here, can anyone recommend or help me out on how i can play my Wii on my computer (using or not using VLC Media Player)? Because i am having no luck and i found a post by someone saying he is able to use VLC Media Player to play his Wii.

I could really use someones help!

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I can not help you with your problem, but I've got an question for you.
Do you really want to play on you Wii via your computer? As far as I know, there will be some delay in the output of the screen because of the WinTV-card. This has something to do with the capturing process.

Just a hint

there is a fix for this

its on WinTV faq

i guess no1 can help me out...

I have never heard of anyone overcoming the delay issue so that game play was usable.

I have never heard of anyone overcoming the delay issue so that game play was usable.

Exactly. The only reason I wanted a Capture card to begin with was to see if I could play video games though it the same way it plays through my TV. Until there is a way to play video games on a computer at 30/60 FPS with no delays, then I see no other use for it (unless you want to watch TV through it).

Naw! Why would you use it for what it was designed to do??? Boring!

It’s all about the setup. I’m not trying to play video games exclusively through my computer, but as-well as my computer. Sometimes it can get a little crowded, so I have multi-player games setup so that everyone has their own space (some play by the TV, others by the computer screen). It worked for awhile, but then things went downhill due to the sheer lag of the capture card and the higher frame-rate of today’s games. Oh well…

In the end, assuming you could get rid of the delay in the capture card, you can't get rid of the all the buffers in VLC as it just stops working. This is due to the fact VLC is a packet based player that needs some FIFOs.

I've done this with a Plextor PX-TV100U and it's fine (no delays that I can notice). Granted, I use VirtualDub.

I use the Nebula tv card and have no probs whatsoever. I use their pvr software. Do you have the component input into your card? If so just pic the AUX setting from your pvr software and it should work.

I also had some problem with my Wii, mainly troubleshooting. recently I found a great tech support site that help you fix this errors. I am sure you will find some answers there. Here is the page for Wii Support

Good luck

Lee

I can tell you how to stream videos with VLC to the Wii ... unfortunately I don't know how to do it the other way around

(sorry for this useless post)

Hey guys,

So I am trying to figure out a good way to play my Wii on my PC. I have component inputs in my TV Tuner card, but I just need a way to interface it with my PC. Someone told me this program could probably do the trick, but didn't know how to set it up. Can anyone possibly help me out setting up to play the Wii through VLC Media Player?

Open VLC, then File -> Open capture device, choose your capture device from Video device name and hit OK.

I too am having difficulties getting the streaming to work.

I have a PVR-150 video card. There's a coax cable from our DirectTV box plugged in & also the composite cables from the wii. I use windows media center to watch satellite on our plasma. I received a wii for Christmas & found information to hook it up thru the pc.

I've downloaded the newest version of VLC. When I go to File | Open Capture Device, both video & audio are set to default. I can choose the Hauppauge card on video. Then I can Alt-S to play locally. But nothing happens; not even a blank window. The main menu shows that something is playing (the time is increasing), but nothing is displayed. I thought that this would play my satellite and I would just have to figure out how to change to composite.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Connie

You should try other software first, like Virtualdub to make sure it (capture) can work correctly.

Thanks, VLC_help! Downloaded Virtualdub & got the satellite up & running easily, then just a matter of changing input to get to wii!

Any reason not to just use Virtualdub instead of VLC?

Connie

Virtualdub works fine. But if you have to stream video over network, then you need something else.

VLC can also take some of the stress off of your CPU by using your video card. I bought a EasyCap USB capture card to play games through. I used Ulead which came with it, and VirtualDub, they both worked fine but used around 30-50 percent of my processor, VLC uses 2-5 percent. I also had a lag problem, although i wasn't able to completely fix it i was able make a work around. When I opened the window to open a capture device I went under the Advanced Options and lowered the "caching value in ms" to 30. The audio will jitter and then just go out all together but it works if your not worried about the audio. I was concerned with the audio however, so I used a dual female composite to 3.5 cable and ran the audio into the line in on my computer. A bit of a round about way of doing it, but it works just fine.

I've been messing around with VLC and I have discovered that if you allow two instances of VLC and run the audio through another instance there doesn't seem to be any lag. When you open the capture device in the first instance set the audio device to none, you'll get and error saying it can't use none but close the dialog box and it should work anyway, and setting the caching in ms to 30 worked for me. In the second instance set video to none, once again you'll get an error but it should run the audio through, for the audio I had to set the cache a little higher, i put it to 75 and it seems to work fine. If there is any lag it's hardly noticeable.

VLC can also take some of the stress off of your CPU by using your video card.

No it can't.

Do you really want to play on you Wii via your computer? As far as I know, there will be some delay in the output of the screen because of the WinTV-card.

Wii doesn't really have that many FPS/time critical games (like Virtua Fighter) so little lag isn't that bad.

VLC can also take some of the stress off of your CPU by using your video card.

No it can't.

It can't? Then why does my CPU usage only go up 1 or 2 percent? I don't know, either way it's still a lot less stress on my CPU than virtual Dub or Ulead.

It can do chroma conversions at least in the GPU, and something called overlay. You can deactivated chroma conversion and overlay and see the difference.

This should help: http://www.dscaler.org/index.php. It's a little program called DScaler that should do the trick. My Wii plays to my monitor with, as far as I can tell, no lag.