Are you using this for RGB scart to component? I mostly play via PC emulators or mister, but if I could hook my older consoles up via composite for cheap then I'd like to at least get them hooked up that way.

They are nice little budget transcoders for sure

Thanks for the kind words! I didnt realize the seasons were so different in southern hemisphere 😵 It makes total sense but never been there or really thought about it 😬 These cheap transcoders would be great for calamitys crtemudrivers, i had to hunt down a $100 Audio Authority transcoder from Turkey several years ago when I had a 15kHz pc setup because cheap teanscoders like these werent around. Glad we have options now.

I have been trying to use retroarch with AMD card but idk what I need. This converter will work? I want crt switches

@@SupremeODMGHmm, Windows 10 with "CRT Emudrivers" is your best chance at getting 15Khz. With Linux distros use Ubuntu with the "radeon" driver configured in /etc/Xorg.conf and with something like 30 modelines (resolutions) at 15Khz. Then it's just finding a good frontend for mame. I hope this helps. Greets from Chile, South America (March 28th here starting Fall, geting colder and cloudy)

Thanks Joe... Happy thanksgiving bro!

Yeah, I have a tau and its nice. My favorite consumer tube is my 36" jvc I rgb modded. Fav pro tube is a tri dot panasonic btm1950. Sonys are nice but i love my mask tubes as well!

What kind of specs does your pc have and do you use any applications or software I want to do something similar

Just remember if your putting 480p in then it will output 480p as well, so if you have a 15kHz tube it wont work unless your feeding it 480i from the dc

Awesome, you arent testing it with crt-emudriver by chance are you?

@@LameGaming no, I am using it with Groovy Arcade at the moment.

lmao, first thought was to cut that out but said F it, its funny damnit lol

@@LameGaming that's a moiré

Cool.... Its a decent budget transcoder for sure

Someone said that before lmao

It should 👍

@@LameGaming works flawlessly, the difference in quality between composite and scart on the ps1 is enormous. Best part is the ps1 scart cable powers it. USB power is not required.

I have an older vid with a guide in the description for setting up emudriver which should still be relevant today

@@LameGaming I'm assuming is this? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtZkprSd26nFp6M.html&ab_channel=LameGaming

@@cawaboonga85 Yup, in the description i left links and info on getting set up with emudriver

Just be aware if u feed the transcoder 480p from the dreamcasts vga the transcoder will put out 480p as well

Were you having sync issues?

did you fix it?

No, it was more to do with the way DACs work with the Mister. I got one of the recommended DAC's from Kuro's list and paired it with the MiSTer Direct Video to Component Adapter from Laserbear and that fixed the issue I was having. This RGB to Component video transcoder in your video did also work for me but It was a little dark.

This transcoder did work for me. The image did end up being a little dark on my HD CRT. I ended up getting the MiSTer Direct Video to Component Adapter from Laserbear Industries and I paired with the Icybox HDMI to VGA adapter and used direct video with the Mister and it worked great. Seems like the voltages coming out of the old MISTER I/O boards weren't great which seems to have been causing my specific issue. I hope this makes sense because I'm definitely not an expert when it comes to this stuff.

Didn't expect to see you here, awesome.... Is there a certain system with component output you've wanted to connect to a pc crt before?

@@LameGaming yaa, your videos are great. Wii and GameCube primarily

@@ShankMods Thanks bro! I havnt messed with my wii since getting mister and never looked into connecting it to a pc crt, that would be awesome! I have my pico boot for the gamecube but with work I havnt had the time to install so dont even know what I will display it to. Recently picked up a 25" Toshiba HD wideboy.... Cool size for a HD crt.... I plan to get the gamecube on it and see if it will laglessly pass a 480p signal in 540p mode and/or play with outputting a custom 540p modeline from mister to it but have so many projects ahead of that.

@@LameGaming what Toshiba is it? Some of the older earlier toshibas are dual scan, meaning they natively scan at 31kh and 33khz with no scaling or lag. 15khz signals are line doubled. The later Orion built models scale and lag

@@ShankMods Definitely a late model orion build.... 26hf84a Went out of town to grab a 20m2u,14m2u, and a bunch of 9" pvm/bvms from a buddy and lined up a free hitachi 36" curved hd multiformat presentation crt but when I got there it was gone. He had this little toshiba he said i could have so just took it. I read it had a low lag or no lag passthrough for 1080i and a setting in the service menu to do the same for 540p but havnt even plugged it in yet. Even if it sucks lagwise ill use for dvd's or something. Should be uploading a vid soon where its shown in it.

I only tested it with my mister setup, i dismantled my crt emudriver setup a few years ago to use the pc in a arcade cab. Back when i had the crt emudriver setup I used an audio authority transcoder which seem to work the same as these new ones on aliexpress, but again I havnt tested personally.

Its decent now but had pretty bad geometry when I started... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdJ5Y5mIsdutn3k.html

I cant remember if you have to change HV sync to Csync or if its even possible to do so but when I was running crtemudriver and a transcoder I had issues at first but ended up figuring it out. I cant see these not working with crtemudriver since they worked fine with mister fpga

Yeah that sucks. Oh well, if it ever craps out you have a cheap alternative option

I used the audio authority for crt-emudriver and these function the same so it should work fine

Not sure if that 7800 is ntsc or pal, the converter will only change the colorspace, it wont change the frequency or upscale the image. I would think an upscaler would be better for an lcd but this device is cheap so you could try

My Atari 7800 is PAL...

@@jimjam1556 zero lag, there is no conversion just transcoding the colorspace

@@KanyeWestLover12345 Whatsup Ye! Lol. What signal source are you trying to transcode?

@@LameGaming SNES, I used my PS1 via SCART and it works fine. It somewhat works on my SNES but the image flickers and sometimes looses connection. I'm thinking it's the cable.

This is a passive device whatever frequency you put in is what you get out. Im pretty sure the dc vga port is strictly for 480p output, so no ... It wont downscale it to 480i or 240p. Now if the vga port can be set to output 480i or if you connect the transcoder through the av port of the dc at 480i then yes it would output a signal for a sd crt.

@@LameGaming Thank you - this works perfectly. Output 480i over scart into the transcoder (which doesn't need to be powered) then component into the SD crt. The dreamcast never looked so good. Never underestimate 480i on a high quality SD CRT everyone!!!! and ZERO latency!

Im sure 1a is fine. I just used cheap cell phone power adapter

Whatever frequency you put in this device is what comes out, it just changes the colorspace. It does no conversion or upscaling

I ran an r9 380x with my old emudriver setup. dvi-i dual link carries analog so Yup just a simple dvi-i to vga adapter. Will you let me know how the transcoder works with your emudriver setup? I kind of want to build another lol. I have a guide in one of my older vids in the description but not sure if anything has changed kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtZkprSd26nFp6M.html

@@LameGaming Thank you. I definitely will once I have every piece of the puzzle on hand.

It would work but first you need to get your PC outputting 15kHz. You need an amd card like the r9 380x or older...one that still outputs analog, then you need to to install a custom video driver made by calamity called crt-emudriver. The pc will then output 240p rgb which you can use one of these transcoders to convert the signal to 240p ypbpr (component) Theres easier ways to do this with a downscaler but they will have varying amounts of lag

@@LameGaming hey thanks for responding, i have a gtx 970 lying around which can still output an analog signal through the dvi-i port. I was messing around with the nvidia control panel and i saw that i can get it to output 15khz. Would that work?

This is the alternative......

@@charleyreynolds5924 it's not composite

Ive seen vga to svideo converters on amazon but never used or tested one. I dont know if mike chi has anything like this or not, I would check on retroRGB...im sure bob has an article or two on this.

im no stranger to soldering lol

Yessir, this device does not upscale, it only converts RGB to ypbpr. A retrotink 2x pro would be a reasonably cheap way to play on a modern display

Transcoders will not introduce any lag, they are just changing the colorspace. They handle 240p just fine. If your sending rgb out from the master system into the transcoder I assume it should work.

@@LameGaming thanks for your answer! cheers

​@@joelalainI know this is an old comment but just to clarify none of these things will ever admit they accept 240p because 240p isn't an actual resolution, it's just 480i with some trickery. So as long as the device you buy isn't doing image processing and is just transcoding or amplifying a given input signal it should not matter if it specified 240p support since if it has the bandwidth to take 480i it will take 240p fine. Just noting this since a lot of receivers/matrix switchers will also not show 240p in a list of supported resolutions and it tripped me up for a bit.

Mike makes great products but when things are cheap and work Ill go that route if the quality is good. No complaints from me on this transcoder. I do have a retrotink 2x pro and its great, waiting on the tink 4k but for a transcoder this worked fine

@@LameGaming I'm with ya. I almost pulled the trigger on Mike's, but money is tight and I was looking at different options. I seen your video (really not many on this product btw!) and after watching, pulled the trigger on it instead. I got mine on ebay though and paid $32 total so a little more. I just never ordered from Aliexpress before. Even though in the product description it doesn't specifically mention 240p, I'm glad you made a video showing it does. Thanks for sharing man! I'll definitely be watching the video on the desolder station you made. Something I want to get better at.

@@TheAlphaOmegaX3 Yeah I couldnt find a single word about the transcoder when I found em on aliexpress. Other cheap ones ive tried didnt work but figured id give it a shot. When It worked as good as my audio authority transcoder I wanted to get the word out.

Try another power cable? Or maybe its picking up interference from something... Could be faulty too I guess, did you look the board and solder joints over?

@@LameGaming Thank you very much for taking the time to read my comment friend. I saw your video about 3 times yesterday to analyze your setup and see differences with mine, it turns out that I always gave power to the transcorder through the usb that comes and connected it to a usb port of my 15khz pc and tried in different ports and always the same interference, until I saw that you connect it directly to the current with a samsung cell phone charger that is seen in the video. I tried doing that and I felt very stupid: c since it was solved in 80%! It is a very big advance since I spent a long time without understanding what it was due to, I thought they were the video cables. Even so, I couldn't find a cell phone charger like the Samsung you have. I tried with a usb port of my ps2 slim to see if it worked and there it looks 97% better, almost perfect. I will also check the solder joints as you mentioned but apparently the problems were the USB ports of my PC. Could you tell me the specifications of your Samsung charger? I have a 5V - 3A one and it doesn't look perfect, I tried another generic one I found and it's 5V - 0.85 A and that one looks a little better. I don't know if it would have to be 5V - 2A to make it look perfect.

@@martin-xi6oh I doubt the transcoder would draw any more than 1 amp but my charger is a samsung cell phone lightning charger that states 9v @ 1.67A -or- 5v @ 2A I would try any 5v 2A cell phone charger adapter, might try a different outlet too, could be interference noise on your mains line in that circuit

I bought this transcoder and it has the same problem as described by @martin-xi6oh. The noise is very noticeable on a bigger CRT (32"). I found that PC USB ports and phone chargers were horrible, while PS2 USB port and Raspberry Pi 4 PSU eliminated ~80% of the noise. It definitely needs a clean power source.

It just transcodes whatever signal you feed it, If you put 480i in it will output 480i, 240p in- 240p out, 480p in- 480p out. If you want to output from computer to a crt then you need a crt that handles 480p or use crt-emudriver like in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtZkprSd26nFp6M.html

Transcoders introduce no lag.

@@LameGamingthis is the question I had. Thank you

@@quinndonnelly1888 Yup, no lag because its just changing the colorspace of the same analog signal so no analog>digital conversions are done or needed

I used one of my audio authorities that way and they are essentially the same. Just keep in mind this only changes the colorspace, whatever kHz signal you feed it is whats going to come out

@@LameGaming Update, I'm using it with my onboard Intel GPU and GroovyArcade with RetroArch, works like a charm with my CRT tv. I would recommend this converter to anyone, the picture is beautiful.

@@xda8009 i have a similar setup and this is the confirmation I've been looking for. Ugh took months to figure this stuff out haha

@@xda8009did you have to do like he did and change the component cables around to get it working?

@@markr8429 Nope, mine was correctly colour coded :) What an amazing piece of hardware.

You would have to use an old AMD video card with analog output and use custom drivers to output a 15kHz 240p rgb signal out VGA. Then VGA to this transcoder, then it would work but its somewhat complicated to setup

When i get a chance ill pull the sd and upload ini

I dont think this transcoder can take in 480p and put out 480i. The DC vga is 480p only so the transcoder would put out 480p ypbpr which a standard def crt cannot accept. If you can output 480i rgb from the DC av port then you would just need a DC scart cable and it should be good to go with this transcoder. I have only used my DC with vga to a pc crt so I havnt tested anything from the av port

@@LameGaming but what if u use a scart cable does it output 480i and u Can use this?

@@gabnrami If the DC will output 480i scart from the av port then it should work. I havnt personally tested this as I dont have a scart cable for my dc and Im not super knowledgeable on the dc. Id ask on the dreamcast subreddit about the scart cable but I assume if the dc scart cable connects to the av port then it should be 480i and should work, i just cant say 100% it will work because I havnt tried it.

The rgb distribution amp is just something I needed for my setup since I have like 8 tubes in the room, Its not needed for this transcoder at all, I should of mentioned that. Im curious why you would need it with mister though since mister can output ypbpr without the need of a transcoder.

@@LameGaming ok thanks yes I understand now, Im pretty sure you can just go from VGA to component with a VGA to component cable from the mister dire t to the CRT but one of my sets I'm not happy with the colour accuracy and this transcoder fixes the colour issue but letting me adjust individual colours. If I can adjust gamma settings with the mister I guess I wouldn't need it though?

@@danielnicholson6174 Yep, you can set mister to output ypbpr and just use a cheap passive vga to component cable from amazon. If your colors are off I would just throw 240p test suite on your mister, load the color bars and get in the service menu of the crt and adjust the color drive levels but yeah this might be a work around if you cant get into service menu for some reason

This is rgb to ypbpr only

@@LameGaming yes I know, but I said what if we add to it an ypbpr to hdmi converter .. can this work

@@ROX99 oh, I dont know what the use case is but it should work fine if the tv can handle the res your feeding it.

It should but would be a 480p component signal

@@LameGaming its alright, its for a CRT! Thanks for the reply

@@kamerynhaynes7076 Most crt's wont accept 480p.... Only 480i. Some HD crt sets will accept 480p but not natively which adds processing lag, depends which model you have. A pc vga crt is another option for using the DC vga output

@Lame Gaming oh snap! So then what would be the best method of playing the DC on a CRT in the most "HD" way as possible ? I have a Sony Trinitron KV XA29M30A

@@kamerynhaynes7076 Honestly DC looks fantastic on a VGA crt monitor in 480p, would definitely be worth grabbing a free one while you still can if you play DC alot. Thats the only way Ive used mine so not sure what your options are if you must use a standard def (15kHz) crt tv.... Probably av out port, if theres no compone t out with the av port then s-video is the next best option.

That ali store needs to hit me with a commission 🤣

Not sure what system/setup you have but you would have to output a 15kHz signal from the pc. This usually invloves custom drivers like crt-emudriver