PS2 connection to PC

I currently purchased a TV tuner card, however, the card only has a S-video port, and I have no idea how I can hook up the video and the two audio cables from my PS2 onto the tuner card, I searched around the net, but I haven't found an answer to my noob problem, can anyone enlighten me? Thanks in advance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Enter User Name

You sure it's not an S-video Out port?

I'm sure of it, it doesn't have other ports on the card.

Originally Posted by MaximoffZero

Hey there,

I just joined this site (as you can see I haven't setup my profile yet). But anyway I also have a PC TV-Tuner and I have plugged my PS2 into it before. Unfortunately, it's no good for gaming though. There is a signal delay so basically you'll hit a button on the PS2 controller but you won't see the action on the screen for another two seconds. This makes it VERY hard to play games.

However, it is still good for recording video off of your PS2 games. For example, I had a friend who recorded all of the Final Fantasy X FMVs by using my PC TV Tuner. So here's how you do it:

1. In your case, you need a PS2 cable with a S-Video cable instead of the yellow cable that the Playstation 2 comes with. These are usually easy to find.
2. If your TV Tuner has 2 audio inputs (one for left and one for right) you can just plug the PS2 cable's audio cords into those. If your TV Tuner only has one audio input (usually it's a headphone-style input), you will need to get a stereo mini-to-RCA cable and plug the PS2's audio cords into one end and plug the other end into your Tuner.

Like I said though, I'm pretty sure all video capture devices have a signal delay on them just because it takes time to digitize the image so it's almost useless for playing games, but it can be very helpful in recording video from a game.

Thanks for your reply, MaximoffZero. I guess I'll need to buy a PS2 S-video cable first...

Part of the reason why I want to hook my PS2 onto a computer's TV card is because I wanna capture some gameplay videos. However, from what you said, besides capturing FMVs, the signal delay seems to be really distractive... so no matter what kind of software I use (like Dscaler), it's going to give me the same result? I haven't seen many people mentioning this issue, so I'd like to know more about it before I spend the money on cables and other accessories.

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