Monitor/setup questions

[Chesstiger2612]

Hi everyone,

I have a few questions about setup / equipment. To give a bit of a background story, I've been playing on my Wii for over 2 years, but as it turns out, our LCD television has a lot of lag and when I first met up with other people to play I could pretty much do nothing at all since I always inputted things when I was still in the previous animation, which was somehow frustrating.

Anyways, ideally I'd like to connect my Wii to a monitor (non-LCD is prefered) with very little lag, while capturing it. I've got a PC to which I could connect the setup, if that is of any help. I'd also want to be able to combine the game sound with sound from my computer, in which case, if I'm correct, I would connect the audio outputs of the Wii to the audio device input from my computer and from then send it to speakers or headphones. Does someone know if I need any special cables for this?
Sorry for my nooby questions, but the last time I tried this kind of task, nothing worked xD (I tried to connect my electronic piano to the computer and although I thought I did everything right there was no sound).

Help is appreciated

 

[Dolla Pills]

So I'm not 100% sure everything you're trying to do but:

You probably can't just connect an audio jack into your computer and have the sound go through your computer. Usually you hook up the sound-making device to your computer through some other type of connection (USB is common I believe) and the sound will register when using specific software. In the case of gaming, you would use a capture card to get the video and audio on your computer so that you could play it through your computer.

However, the capture cards have some lag to them when going to a PC, so if you are playing the audio from your computer there will be a delay from the in game sound.

Now, if you want to hook up the Wii to a monitor what you want to use is the Sewell HDMI adapter. The amount of lag that this creates is unnoticeable with a gaming monitor (idk what the cut off is in terms of monitor response time is, I can assure you that 1ms response time works perfectly but you can probably go a little slower).

What you do with the HDMI output is your choice. The Sewell also has audio output so personally I play my Wii sound on crappy $8 speakers and play music through the better speakers connected to my PC. I also connect my Wii output to an El Gato HD 60 capture card for recording matches, and the pass through on it means your signal will go laglessly to the monitor even though there is lag going to the computer.

I'm not sure if there are other options for combining the sound from both your Wii and PC to go to one speaker, but there may be. Let me know if you have any questions or if I can clarify anything

 

[Chesstiger2612]

Thanks for answering!
I've got the Sewell HDMI adapter now, although it was a bit complicated to get it in Europe.
I think I need to get another monitor, too, because it seems my monitor has no HDMI, but VGA only (which surprised me quite a bit). What would be a recommended monitor with very little lag?

 

[Kadano]

For the monitor, I have listed the better models in the perfect setups thread linked from my sig. For the in-game sound plus desktop music, you can either mix them passively with splitters or connect the in-game sound to the line in on your onboard or sound card audio and, within Windows, set it to output over speakers.

 

[Chesstiger2612]

My setup is now working (except some audio stuff but I'm confident to be able to do that soon, too), thank you both for your answer.
I use the following items:
Sewell Wii to HDMI, Avermedia Live Gamer Extreme, BenQ RL2455HM