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Since the big fancy TV townstairs is not exactly my personal one, I would like to play whenever, and wherever I want. I know I can connect HDMI cables via an adaptor, but this is component I am dealing with.
What exact adaptor do I need to connect component AV cables to my laptop, and how make it work as a monitor?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), It's kind of cool.
how make it work as a monitor?
You don't.
that was my alias wrote:
What exact adaptor do I need to connect component AV cables to my laptop, and how make it work as a monitor?
$200 EyeTV
http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/EyeTV-HD/product1.en.html
Buying another HDTV likely would be the better choice as it's a larger screen, easier to play games and watch movies than prematurely burning out your expensive laptop and wearing out the port connecting and reconnecting.
A PS2 is really a console designed to be more or less pernamently connected to a HDCP compliant HDTV for high quality content, not a non-compliant laptop computer.
But I guess if you want to screen record PS2 games for some reason, this should work.
I appreciate the suggestion but I do not want to spend two hundred dollars for expensive recording equipment. I just want a cable/adapter to watch the gameplay on the screen.
Templeton Peck wrote:
how make it work as a monitor?
You don't.
Awwww... aren't you cute?
That is a really intersting idea. But most Mac notebook computer do not have a direct display input of any kind, and certainly not Analog component video.
Now if you wanted to put your laptop OUTPUT up on the Big Screen, that would be easy.
He's not trying to be cute. You just can't do it. NO LAPTOP HAS VIDEO INPUT CAPABILITIES. Simple as that. Video out, yes... video in, no.
That youtube Video uses an eyeTV stuntbox. Readers already suggested that was about the only way you could get video in.
The EyeTV 250 had a feature for using a Mac as a game monitor, but it seems to have been discontinued some time ago as analog TVs died. You could try to find one on eBay.
"...the EyeTV 250 is switchable — activating a “Game Mode” option turns that hardware-based encoding off, so you can play games connecting your console to the Mac instead of using a television." - Macworld Magazine
No one else seems to make one. (The ElGato linked in the second post is more of a general-purpose recorder and was not game-optimized. It is overkill for this purpose, although it's one of the few options left.)
It would be much, much cheaper and easier to pick up a used TV or monitor with a component input on it. You could probably get one from under $100. Heck, if you don't mind a CRT, they show up on the sidewalk for free on a regular basis around here.
He's not trying to be cute. You just can't do it. NO LAPTOP HAS VIDEO INPUT CAPABILITIES. Simple as that. Video out, yes... video in, no.
Told you so.
Game sites always have footage of console games somehow recorded on their computers. If you cannot connect a console to a computer, how do they do that? I also know a person who does Let's Plays of console videogames by recording game footage on his computer.
I know it is possible. I just don't know how to do that on an apple computer. Are there some inputs PCs have that Macs don't?? I doubt that.
This is not a mystery.
If you want to do it that bad, you pay eyeTV the US$200 and do it.
Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
This is not a mystery.
If you want to do it that bad, you pay eyeTV the US$200 and do it.
I may end up doing that I guess.
HOWEVER, if I get a component-to-HDMI adapter, could I just plug in the HDMI cable and use some program to pass through the video signal? I know that can be dome with sound.
No, there are no Video inputs on a MacBook.
No Analog composite Video (yellow RCA)
No Analog component Video ( Red, Green, Blue RCA)
No Analog VGA (Three-row DB-15 or 5-BNC)
No Digital DVI or HDMI
No Digital DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort
You need to get it into packets and feed it in USB or FireWire.
Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
No, there are no Video inputs on a MacBook.
No Analog composite Video (yellow RCA)
No Analog component Video ( Red, Green, Blue RCA)
No Analog VGA (Three-row DB-15 or 5-BNC)
No Digital DVI or HDMI
No Digital DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort
You need to get it into packets and feed it in USB or FireWire.
That last line... could you explain what it means? Cause it's like a different language to me.
Want to use my laptop as a monitor for PS2. Component cables connect how?
