Reddit reviews Tomee S-Video AV Cable for Wii U/ Wii

This is the capture card I have. It works pretty well, but it records in 480i at 60fps I believe (the Wii outputs 480p max). I'd recommend buying these cables as well due to S-Video being much higher quality than standard AV cables.

For your software, you'll want to download Virtual Dub (the bundled software is not that great plus Virtual Dub gives you options for compression). For encoding, I'd recommend HuffYuv. It's a lossless codec meaning it will be a large file size, but the quality will be 1:1 with the TV.

You'll then want to compress it to a much smaller size. There is a simple program that will encode it in x264 and NeroAAC which will shrink the file size and still give you great quality. You can download it here and I'd recommend the tutorial here.

Don't listen to the other 3 people this TV should be just fine.

It looks like it has an S-video input (labeled Y/C-input on the TV in this picture) they make wii output cables with those like this. Then there's only one audio input below it, so plug in the white audio cord into that and you'll be set.

>Good composite setup - Avermedia C039, use a S-video cable for wii that has S video and composite. Plug the S video in to the capture card and the composite in to the TV and use splitters for audio. OBS has built in deinterlace software that works well.

https://www.amazon.com/Wii-S-Video-AV-Cable-nintendo-u/dp/B001B0A3A0

https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-Standard-Definition-Composite-C039/dp/B00603S1OS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485960536&sr=8-1&keywords=avermedia+c039

So these?


I got a component capture card a long time ago for Wii; if I wanted to use it, should I try to buy a component to composite converter?

Setup was easy. You can find instructions on the amazon page and elsewhere to get it installed, and once you have the drivers+software, everything is in english. There's tons of resources for using an old deinterlacing program called amarectv with the device, but mine seemed to work and look fine off of just OBS. I never had any luck with amarec.

I never really had any issues with the device on my laptop, other than messing with the settings until I got it to a quality I liked. My desktop didn't seem to like it for some reason, but that's had a multitude of other issues, so I don't think it was the capture device.

Yes, S-video would look better, though I can't exactly say how much better. You can read up on the differences a bit here, and here's a random youtube video comparing different input recordings on PS2 games. Also keep in mind that you need an S-video output cable for your wii and a CRT that has S-Video input. A good chunk of TVs seem to have them, but not all.

As long as the splitter is powered, it shouldn't add any delay, and shouldn't take away from the quality either.

All good on the questions! I had to figure a lot of this stuff out myself, and ended up wasting money on different things because of it x.x

Edit: Oh, and for the recording 4:3 thing, that's just the aspect ratio on the image. The video being recorded from the capture card will be coming in 4:3(as that's what the image on the CRT is). OBS streams + records on a default 16:9 widescreen image, but keep in mind that's the full stream picture, including the capture, overlays, player cam, and whatever else you want to put on there. If you're streaming, you'll likely want to keep the 16:9 output, so you can do something like this, where the gameplay takes up one side of the stream, and you still have space on the other side for a camera and other information.

i try record it but it does not show well on the camera but these are the cable i got for it :

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B0A3A0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks for the reply!

Would this be the right cable for Wii S-Video? And this for Component?

If I go with component, I would also have to convert from BNC then I assume?

What I'm talking about (wii S-video + AV cable) is one cable. Because the Wii comes with a standard AV cable (albeit with a proprietary connector to the Wii, but the output is universally accepted AV composite cables: yellow, red, white for video and left and right audio.) the cable with the s-video is the same thing, except it has one more wire that ends in s-video output, and this will plug into the ElGato. So, you do need this single cable to capture it via ElGato. Here's the link: link