Live monitoring of video camera view with WinTV-PVR-250

[bamdvd]

For recording church services I was going to hook up a miniDV video camera (without tape) to the WinTV-PVR-250 and monitor the live video camera view on the PC monitor while it's recording to the PC's hard drive. Eventually the video camera will be mounted on a wall and we will have remote pan/zoom capability, so we need to use the PC monitor to monitor what the video camera is capturing in real time with no lag. Testing this setup at home with the WinTV2000 application, there is a 1-2 second lag between what the video camera is pointing at and what appears on the PC monitor. Is there a setting that can be changed that will show the video camera view in real time on the PC monitor? Or do I need to be using different hardware. Thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

You need different hardware. I love my 250 card, but it seems to buffer a few secs of the input. Not much to do about that AFAIK.

/Mats

[FulciLives]

You could split the video before it goes to the computer ... then have one video feed go to the computer (the WinTV PVR 250) and have the other video feed go to a cheap 13" or so TV so that you are using the TV to monitor rather than the computer monitor (which has the lag).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[bamdvd]

Thanks. I just spoke with Hauppauge which confirmed that the lag is inherent because of the MPEG encoding, and the card itself can't split or pass-through the signal to the PC monitor.