Want to use my laptop as a monitor for PS2. Component cables connect how?

We used to connect Video cameras to our Macs with expensive hardware to digitize the Analog Video and write it really quickly to disk, trying not to drop any frames.

When cameras got a little smarter and a little more digital, it was a real cinch for them to send packets (like fat envelopes through the mail, or downloads off the Internet) with pre-digitized Video in them.

So when you hook up your Video camera or your Digital camera or your phone today, that device already has digital data. All it needs to do is send a fat message with the digital data to your computer over some simple interface like USB or FireWire.

Live Video is exactly streaming. If you run out of time to process something, you drop it.

Pictures from your camera are similar, but the rules change slightly. You want every bit of the pictures, even if you have to wait or send part over again.

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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 YOU CAN'T. You've already been told there is no video input on Mac laptops. What do you not understand about that?

MacBook pro has no where you can plug it in.

So sell your MacBook and buy a 65lb desktop Mac Pro tower. It has PCIe slots where you can plug in a card. Prices START about US$2500 without a display.

All this for an outdated gaming machine. Honestly..

Go right ahead. I told you in the beginning you couldn't do it and you chose not to believe me. There are no video inputs on Mac laptops, and now you want a capture card which aren't made for laptops.

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Okay, I finally found a word for what I would like to have/learn how to use: a capture card. This is what other people use to capture game footage.

Yes, a capture card is what was traditionally used to capture video...in the old days. Today, capture cards are still used on high-end video production desktop computers, where the capture card goes in an expansion slot in the desktop case.

But you don't have a desktop, you have a laptop. Today, very few laptops still have expansion slots, and you'll have a hard time finding anyone making video capture cards for any laptop, Windows or Mac.

Just about everything that used to be made as a capture card is still available, but in a different form, usually an expansion module that you plug in via USB or Thunderbolt.

The video capture cards for Windows and Mac laptops are now generally available as USB sticks. You plug one end into your video and the other into the USB port.

The ElGato EyeTV is pretty much what a video capture card is on a Mac these days, so we have now circled back to that. It is the same guts as a capture card, in the form of a USB module. Which is great, since if it still looked like a plug-in card you wouldn't have anywhere on the laptop to plug it in. As a USB module it works with any Mac, slot or not.

There are high-end video capture cards available for Macs, but they are expensive cards for the expansion slots in the Mac Pro desktop.