[mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

[Jan Ophey]

Craig Tinson wrote:

> Franco wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> last evening my friends came to my place and we connected their 
>> PlayStation to my MythBox via the SCART connector
>> of the PVR 350.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it was impossible to play the games as there
>> was a noticeable delay between actions on the PS2 and
>> actual images on the screen.
>
> don't think so in myth.. but could use mplayer
>
> mplayer -fs < /dev/video0
>
> or similar - might need a -vo in there
>
> that'll just display whats coming in through the 350 I would imagine
>
> hth
>
> Craig

Hi!
Unfortunatelly the hardware encoder (also the decoder) have a delay of 
1.5 to 2 secs. So IIRC you will always have this delay if you get the 
video from /dev/video0.
But IIRC (again ;) ) there was another Videodevice provided by the 
ivtv-driver (/dev/video32 or 48; don't know exactly) that did direct 
pass-through with nearly zero-delay. You can try to watch this via 
mplayer. Maybe it works better.
Anyone who knows better should correct me. I really don't know, if I 
remeber this correctly...

Jan