Problems with PS3 S-Video feed.

[lilsting10]

WinTV7/USB-Live-2 does not seem to work with my PS3's Composite connection or the new S-Video wire I bought: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2707486352...84.m1439.l2649

I am most concerned with getting S-Video feed working. The PS3 was previously connected via HDMI to my TV, but now I require it to be connected to USB Live 2 via S-Video to be captured. I have already re-set the display setting on the PS3, and the new S-Video wire I purchased does work on my TV, just not through the USB-Live-2.

If I see anything it is either a full green screen, a full black screen, either one of the two with massive interference waves, or audio only (when I bring up the USB Live 2 feed in a 3rd party capture software called XSplit).

The only practical difference I can see between this S-Video wire which I bought for my PS3 and the one I have for my Xbox360 which works, is that the 360 one has gold connections and the PS3 one has silver.

Right now I cannot get the log files, as the computer needs to be restarted in order to enable them, and I am running recovery software, scraping my hardrive for some accidentally deleted files.

Off the top of anyone's head, what could the issue possibly be?

[lilsting10]

The first log is from my Xbox360 feed. It is a fresh boot of WinTV7 after restarting the computer, using the gold plug S-Video lead I have, and the Xbox360 was already turned-on. It loaded the capture feed perfectly. I then closed WinTV without any freezing/crashing.

The second log is from my PS3 feed. It is a fresh boot of WinTV7 after restarting the computer, using the silver plug S-Video lead I have, and the PS3 was already turned-on. It loaded the a complete green screen with no sound. I then turned the PS3 console off and the screen changed to full black. I then turned the PS3 console on again, and saw no change in WinTV. I then attempted to close WinTV, and it froze/crashed and I had to close it via a Windows error popup.

Hopefully there will be something in the logs to point to the problem.

[lilsting10]

Can anyone help?

[lilsting10]

Anyone? If not I'm going to have to try returning the S-Video wire I purchased for the PS3.

[Robo_Raver]

Just use the composite cable from the PS3 (The lead you get with it), you can't use PS3 to S-video only S-video to S-video, I suspect your adapter is working but the USB Live will not see the S-video signal correctly (It's really a composite signal) so use the Yellow connection.

[lilsting10]

I am now using the composite cable from the PS3, which looks like this: http://dwi-putra.com/product_images/...ble__48826.jpg

And am getting the same/simillar results to the S-Video wire.

When using XSplit I get one of two things happen. The screen stays black, but I can hear the PS3 turning-on, so audio is working. Or as I turn the PS3 on I see ''interference'' freeze on the screen, such as using the two below examples.

When using WinTV I get a green screen upon loading (S-Video). When switching to Composite connection the screen goes black. When switching the PS3 on either the screen remains black with no audio, or I have the same ''interference'' screen freezing.

However in the log I am going to attach I turned the S-Video chanells off in the configuration pages, and load the composite channell by default. When turning the PS3 on I hear the boot sound for a split-second before it cuts out, the screen remaining black throughout. Then as I tried to switch to 'Composite 2' (set-up by WinTV when I was tuning the channels as I checked ''I have A/V Cables plugged-in''), WinTV froze.

One thing that concerns me is that the whole reason I was using an S-Video wire for my Xbox360 was for the extra visual clarity as the Xbox360 via Composite had horrific 'dot crawl interference'. What is to say that should I get the PS3 working over Composite it won't have the same dot crawl problem?

[lilsting10]

Surely people must be able to use Hauppage products to record PS3 footage? I used to use the old WinTV USB / WinTV2000 software back in like 2003 to record PS2 before I lost all the stuff when moving house. Anyone have any ideas what the issue is here?

[Robo_Raver]

Have you emptied the channel database and then re-created the composite channel again ?

[lilsting10]

Yes, multiple times.

"PAL_60" is the setting I use in Cyberlink's PowerDirector to view a working Xbox360 feed.
Also by using Cyberlink's PowerDirector 10 I can get a PS3 S-Video feed working by setting the capture feed to "PAL_I".

Trying "NTSC_433, NTSC_M, NTSC_M_J, PAL_60, PAL_M" with PS3 S-Video wire in PowerDirector all showed the same black screen and played audio as discussed above in WinTV and XSplit; and "PAL_N" showed messed-up color scanlines over the top of a working audio+visual feed.


It seems that Xbox360 only works on "PAL_60" and PS3 only works on "PAL_I" is there any way to make either match the other, as it really causes issues when trying to swap them back and forth in Cyberlink Powerdirector, and makes the feeds unusable for XSplit and WinTV.

[lilsting10]

It seems that WinTV software simply freezes upon opening now that I've messed around with the capture signal settings in other software. For now this is an issue I will revisit later, as I do not tend to record videos to my hardrive using WinTV and then upload the videos to YouTube much anymore, I tend to stream gameplay footage to my twitch.tv account using XSplit.

My main concern is getting the USB-Live-2 capture device to work with PS3 and 360 without causing havoc.

Xbox360 S-Video
After setting the capture input to ''PAL_60'' in Cyberlink's PowerDirector in order to get the Xbox360 feed working. The display is fine, but when attempting to record in CyberLink PowerDirector I get a green bar across the bottom of the feed, which is recorded.
See:
Feed Display:

vs
Feed Display when recording:


This is also how the feed looks in XSplit too, although Xsplit offers me the option to crop it out.
See:



PS3 S-Video
After setting the capture input to ''PAL_I'' in Cyberlink's PowerDirector in order to get the PS3 feed working. The display is fine, both normally and when recording.
See:
Feed Display:

vs
Feed Display when recording:


The feed is also OK in XSplit too.
See: