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How play my Wii U through my computer?

Bennext

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I have a HP Media Center m7357c Desktop PC.
It has the yellow red and white composite video and audio input slots on the front.
And there is another on the back.
It has widows 7 professional 32bit.

I have game consoles like snes, ps2, Xbox 360, Wii U and they all use those yellow/red/white cables to connect to a TV.
I want to plug it into my computer so I can stream it, or record, or even just just play through my computer monitors, because that would be cool and convenient.

Do I need drivers or software?
What s the next step after plugging it into the composite slots?

I also tried asking this here
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160124142939AA0cP8b
 

FamilyTeam

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To play video game consoles on your PC, you need a capture card. Those allow you to record gameplay as you please as well.
I have no idea what the hell you described is, exactly, but it's probably not one.
 

Spak

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Epsilon made a really good guide to setting up recording software. The drivers for your composite input should come with your PC automatically, and you would select the name of your input from "Capture Devices" (or the equivalent prompt in any given software). If you have trouble with the drivers, you might be able to reinstall them using a CD/DVD that came with your computer or download it from the manufacturer's website. You also might want to consider if your computer is capable of recording video; it's pretty graphics-intensive and if you haven't updated your graphics card since you got the computer (if it's the same one from 2005 that I'm looking at online), you might have trouble capturing at an adequate framerate. You should also know that uncompressed video is very large in file size, so you might want to clear out some space from your hard drive before recording.
 

ScarletRed012

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Basically I don't see how you can get your wii u through your PC exactly without major delay in terms of video capture cards. Also, those different video composite slots will not actually help you in terms of recording I don't think. It's like a normal TV with inputs, and will not register as being on your computer.
 
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