How can I remove the delay of Hauppage WinTV-HVR 1850?

[yaomtc]

I recently purchased and installed this TV tuner card, and found it has the same problem that the Colossus does -- by default, everything is delayed by a few seconds. As a workaround for the Wii with the Colossus, I simply use a component-to-HDMI converter from its component output to the second HDMI input on my computer monitor. But for my Super Nintendo and N64, I don't have this option, only S-video. Apparently this delay is due to hardware encoding, but it seems at least one person figured out how to get around it:

Other Thoughts: To get rid of the 3 second delay for playing video games via a console, download an app called GBPVR and do the following:

1) In the Sources tab, choose Add, then set up Capture Source accordingly, I'm assuming you already know what's needed here.
2) Under EPG Source, you first choose an XML, like, config.xml, or a copied config2.xml, doesn't matter. Then, you click OK.
3) Now, you're back at the 'Edit Recording Source' prompt. Click 'Update EPG' and now, tah dah, you'll be able to add channels.
4) Add Channel No. '1' as a channel, with the name, for example, 'PlayStation 2'.
5) And finally, when this is done, again, you should click 'Update EPG'.

The problem is, this is for GBPVR. Would nPVR be capable of this too? Where do I find a config.xml? Will this even solve the problem?

[stustunz]

nextpvr and gbpvr are not really what you want to use to play video games
they are programs for recording from a tuner card and playing back video etc

[johnsonx42]

no, there is nothing to accomplish that in NPVR; it's impossible because of the way NPVR works. I do recall there was a way to make it work in GB-PVR, though what you found isn't exactly correct (in particular, step 2 as written ought to just make it crash). Even in GB-PVR, if it worked it was because of an odd scenario that was never intended by the programmer.

The WinTV software that comes with the card (or that you can download from Hauppauge for it) does have a 'Videogame Mode' that will give you what you want.

[yaomtc]

The WinTV software that comes with the card (or that you can download from Hauppauge for it) does have a 'Videogame Mode' that will give you what you want.

Thank you! This solved my problem.

For anyone in the future that has trouble finding this, it's in Settings > Advanced Options tab > [] Use Game Mode for analog. As it says you need to restart for this to work.