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I am currently using easycap usb2.0 and videostudio v10 to play my Playstation 3. I know i should just use a TV but I am in the Marines right now and I am moving around quite a bit for next few months and I dont wanna haul a tv around with me everywhere so I looked online and found out how to play it through my laptop. When I watched the video on youtube the creator barely had any lag, I have a bunch more and my computer has better specs. I have a:

Compaq Presario V6000
1.60 GHZ
2.0 Gigs of ram

Basically what I want to know is what settings will give me the worst quality and best speed. I dont care how bad the quality is I just need it to stop being so jerky/laggy. I am focused more on speed right now and I figured if I started at the absolute worse, I can work my way up and find the best spot where I still have no lag, because right now its almost unplayable.

I am a first time user with videostudio as of today so if you can dummyproof it and go into good details thatd be awesome.

Thanks a ton!

Welcome to the forums,

If I understand correctly, you're just using your Easycap and VS as a conduit to play your PS3 games on your PC, correct? If so then the speed issue is not due to quality, but to your method.

USB 2.0 while is somewhat of a fast transfer means, when it comes to games, is a real turtle. We don't even recommend using it to transfer video from camcorders for editing. USB is great to get photos off digital cameras, but that's about it. So in a nutshell your bottleneck is your setup, USB just is not going to cut the mustard for playing games. Heck gamers wouldn't settle for some of the PCs we use to edit videos, they just aren't fast enough, but they are considerably faster than a USB setup.

I hope someone else comes along and is able to provide a method for this to work for you.

In the meantime, be safe and from the bottom of my sole and heart...THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!

Yes that is correct. I kinda thought that but I saw a video of a guy using it on youtube, here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnJKG2ytpUA

I have the exact same setup as him except a PS3 instead of a 360 (should be no difference). As you can see his is running fairly decent, much better than mine.

If i can get mine somewhat closer to his speed I would be satisfied.

Thanks for the reply.

OK, I'm not sure of his Laptop specs, but looking at yours for regular video capture it should do it. You're probably are running Vista of some flavor, which is a resource hog. You need to shutdown all applications that are not absolutely necessary, and with Vista and all it's security crap, is difficult to do.

Some things that you can try to shutdown through Task Manager are anti-virus, spyware (third party) programs, disable Windows Defender, UAC (User Account Control), and don't try to run any other programs such as instant messenger, the internet, a word processor, nothing else than what you need to run the game.

Try setting the swap-file for at least 2½ times that of your RAM. Make the Max and Min the same size, that way windows does not have to readjust it.

For video capture, you no doubt are capturing this as MPEG, however I'm not sure if you're using MPEG-2 or MPEG-1. The worse quality would be to capture as MPEG-1 with a frame size of 640x480 or 320 x 240. Reading one of the replies by the person posting the instructions on YouTube, it should be in 4:3 not 16:9.

So in the Capture screen, click on the drop-down menu button for Format, and select VCD. This should provide you with a 320 x 240 frame resolution, and a very low bitrate. If this works you can then change it through that same menu, to MPEG, however the default MPEG will be MPEG-2, a higher resolution and bitrates for DVD video. Once it is changed to MPEG, click on the Options button (gear looking icon), and select MPEG settings. In the dialog that opens, you can try the SVCD settings, which will provide a little larger frame size, and bitrate. You can also play with the audio settings to see if that helps smooth things out.

For capturing VS does allow much liberty with the MPEG settings.