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my capture card is working a little better now
so i decided to take pictures of the video game that is currently ruining my social life this week: Phantasy Star Universe.
my card isn't meant to cap video game stuff, so the quality's pretty low, unfortunately.
a robot with cake and parfait WAT
( PSU picspam: Casinos, cake, and a GIANT FLYING VAGINA )
i also tried capping some video to see if the sound quality improved at all - rather than stick the cables into the audio port directly, i piped it through the TV's headphone jack. the first video seemed fine, if a little tinny:
voice-chat comes through, though the game audio is much louder. in PSU there is a music volume adjuster in the options menu to counter this; i'm still not sure what to do with games that don't have such an option.
later on i tried to cap one of the boss fights. this was much less successful.
the audio is decent until roughly the 20 second mark, when it explodes into static again. :( i don't know what caused it - i think gunfire-type sounds are still troublesome for the device to cap. i plan on trying a few other fixes tonight...hopefully one of them will be successful.
...or maybe i should just get an actual, quality capture card. :p
Other, non-PSU nerd notes:
-after waffling for awhile, i posted Sweet Peanut (the one and only Lil' Peanut/Nick fic!) to ff.net. it's a little different from the draft i posted on LJ, but not significantly so.
i have the second and third chapters written but i need to do some serious editing before they are post-worthy. since i'm a hideously lazy person, you'll PROBABLY see them around the end of February....of next year. (j/k, j/k!...probably)
-i started playing Plants vs. Zombies on Steam, because it's one of the few games my laptop can run. i guess if you have Steam and also PvZ you can add me to your friends list? i'm terabient there.
so i decided to take pictures of the video game that is currently ruining my social life this week: Phantasy Star Universe.
my card isn't meant to cap video game stuff, so the quality's pretty low, unfortunately.
a robot with cake and parfait WAT
( PSU picspam: Casinos, cake, and a GIANT FLYING VAGINA )
i also tried capping some video to see if the sound quality improved at all - rather than stick the cables into the audio port directly, i piped it through the TV's headphone jack. the first video seemed fine, if a little tinny:
voice-chat comes through, though the game audio is much louder. in PSU there is a music volume adjuster in the options menu to counter this; i'm still not sure what to do with games that don't have such an option.
later on i tried to cap one of the boss fights. this was much less successful.
the audio is decent until roughly the 20 second mark, when it explodes into static again. :( i don't know what caused it - i think gunfire-type sounds are still troublesome for the device to cap. i plan on trying a few other fixes tonight...hopefully one of them will be successful.
...or maybe i should just get an actual, quality capture card. :p
Other, non-PSU nerd notes:
-after waffling for awhile, i posted Sweet Peanut (the one and only Lil' Peanut/Nick fic!) to ff.net. it's a little different from the draft i posted on LJ, but not significantly so.
i have the second and third chapters written but i need to do some serious editing before they are post-worthy. since i'm a hideously lazy person, you'll PROBABLY see them around the end of February....of next year. (j/k, j/k!...probably)
-i started playing Plants vs. Zombies on Steam, because it's one of the few games my laptop can run. i guess if you have Steam and also PvZ you can add me to your friends list? i'm terabient there.
