If you have just purchased a EasyCap to record games on your Wii, here is quick guide to getting it up and running very quickly. A few extra Items you will want to purchase are 2 or 3 phono splitters
for this tutorial i will use just 2 splitters.
This will enable you to play the console on your TV whilst recording the game on your laptop or PC
phono splitters
2 sets of phono extension cables
phono extension leads
Now from the Easycap connect 1 set of the phono extension leads to the correct colours yellow on yellow for Video the other end connects to 1of the phono splitters
Repeat with the white cable and the other cable splitter, itshould now look like below
phono from easycap to splitter
take the second set of phono extension cables and connect yellow(video) to the splitter, the white cable (audio) connects to the other splitter with the white cable
both phono leads connected to splitter
The other end of the extension cables goes to your TV, select the correct channel for the AV leads. Now you will need to connect the Wii AV cables to the splitter, following the same trend as before yellow (video) to the splitter with the other video cables, and white (audio)cables to the splitter with the white cables connected. You should now have this setup below
3 AV cables connected to the splitter
Now power on your Wii, you should see the picture on your TV screen, check you are on the correct channel for the AV cables.
If your based in the UK make sure the WII is set to PAL 50hz
Launch the Ulead software and follow the following steps
click capture
click capture video
click options, select video and audio capture settings
For PAL systems make sure you have these settings
Check the the capture tab has the same settings
If you have any problems with setting this up on your wii feel free to leave comments i will try and resolve the problems your having
October 29th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
it didn’t work
October 31st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Hello, I have recently purchased an easycap off ebay, i purchased it to record game footage off my xbox 360, i set the easycap up correctly but the video on my computer is in black and white. I have seen many videos on youtube on how to resolve this problem but none of this helps because my easycap does not have the setting ntsc 433, also when i record in black and white the footage when played backed ‘lags’ please help
Bill from Manchester
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
hi
i have set up following easycap instructions but i get only vid no sound.
Have tried burning onto a cd from my vhs but playback is also same as viewing on pc video but no sound can you help
November 6th, 2008 at 5:20 am
It has long been looking for this information, Thank you for your work.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I have done all the settings as above but can not get the picture in colour??
December 29th, 2008 at 5:54 am
Hi there! Thank you for the wonderful information! I’ve only just received my own copy of the easycap, and am having a unique problem I believe no-one else is. I have a UK Wii a UK Gamecube and a UK ps2. All of these work well in PAL ofcourse. I’ve connected up my Easycap, and I can record sound and video using windows movie maker without a problem for PAL. The problem is when I try and record my US and Japanese NTSC games. I can record sound without a problem, but the video I simply cannot. I am using windows XP (as vista doesn’t seem to even begin to want to look at the Easycap install CD). Is there a driver which I need for the Easycap which can help in this pal–>ntsc conversion which I do with the freeloader…I bought my easycap hoping to upload some videos of my imported games to youtube – however by the looks of things I may have wasted my money and time. Can someone please help? I’m almost at my wits end…
I’ve played around with some of the settings, and the only things I’ve been able to see in windows movie maker (I’ve tried with Debut video capture and also virtualdub as well – still no luck) are that the different formats of PAL_B –> PAL_F only pick up the signal when the consoles are loading up – then when I change the settings as the ntsc formats are playing, the NTSC M and NTSC M_J and PAL_M all say they have a signal – but there is no picture at all (just a black window). I’m curious about the conversion between the two, since I’ve tried it with only the easycap plugged directly into the game consoles, also trying with the y-splitters I have – and even the TV out RCA plugs I have on my tv – all without any success. Any light you might have would be deeply and sincerely appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Liam
March 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
When i do this technique, it is really bad quality on my tv, but ok on my computer,
any tips?
April 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Get splitters with Gold plated instead of nickel for better quality
May 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I want to record audio from my european ps3 and ps2 but I have a lcd tv a sony bravia and the easycap software records only the tv channels not the av signals!! how can I do??
September 14th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Hi! My problem is that I have a LCD tv and I really wanna record my wii but I dont get any video on the wii, mjust audio, but it works on the TV channels…. What to do? Please help me!!!
October 12th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
i just got an easycap on ebay to record games on my xbox but it keeps saying “error no capture driver installed in this system or no device is connected” how do i install it?
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Just connected my xbox in the same way you have connected your wii.
The problem ive got is that I have no sound and the video is in 4:3 not widescreen. (This happens even when I start UleadStudio at 16:9 at the main menu)
Also for some reason 1 minute of film is about 1.5GB of memory.
Yer it is great quality but I really dont want the file size that much and thats with no sound. (thats at quality of 50%)
Any ideas.
Thanks
December 14th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Hi – I’m using vista with easycap/ulead studio. I get a good picture of my wii game in the window but when I press capture – the recommended resolution appears not to be supported by the bit rate video download. even when I reduce the resolution the default rate will not work. I cannot find how to change the bit rate in options. When I reduce the resolution even further it looks like it is going to tape and then a get the message ‘cannot start the capture graph?’
any ideas?
Rob
February 19th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Hi, i bought the easy cap from amazon… the easy cap works okay but is there a way to increase the FPS that it can record? thanks
March 7th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Hi, I ve get the easycap cap as a gift. Can I watch play live TV on my pc using this?
May 26th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Hi there, i cannot seem to get the Ulead program to run on my laptop. Is there anything that can help?
June 4th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Hi
Great article! Thanks.
I use the easyCap to record Wii games to review on a blog I am planning.
So far I am getting it to record OK (with some trial and error) and get get fairly good quality video with audio. I can add a spoken commentary in Ulead Video.
However, I would like to be able to record the video of the game, the audio form the game and a spoken commentary AT THE SAME TIME! Is that too much to ask?
I have an ordinary headset microphone I would like to use to record the commentary – or I have a USB webcam with a built-in microphone that I can use if necessary.
Any ideas?
Thanks
August 24th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Hallo, mein neuer PC windows 7 hat nur Ubs Anschlüsse, zum überspielen vom Video Recorder zum PC benötigte ich denzufolge einen Adapter S-VHS-USB, so kaufte ich EasyCAP, leider kommt keine Übertragung, die ich auf MAGIX Video delux 16 Premium überspielen möchte, zustande. Erbitte Software, Treiber zum Durchladen oder Angabe welcher Treiber erforderich ist.MfG A. Hinz
Bremen d. 24.08.2010
January 15th, 2011 at 11:18 am
I received my EasyCAP today, and when I record the Wii, picture quality is perfect, but the sound is all fuzzy, making cracking noises.
February 18th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
i am asking a question can i get easy cap on a 1995 tv it has input and output
May 18th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
I really need your help. where can i get a free download of my easycap dc60. my installation disk got stolen along with other disks on my cd bag. i’ll really appreciate
July 25th, 2011 at 3:38 am
to get better sound quality, remove the black shell from the actual easycap. it makes the device overheat and it makes the sound quality all scratchy
August 19th, 2011 at 8:52 am
I have a CD of Easy Cap video Capture USB 2.0,but unable to download Video capture driver in Windows7 from my CD.What to do??
August 19th, 2011 at 9:19 am
I have a CD of Easy Cap video Capture USB 2.0,but unable to download Video capture driver in Windows7from my software.What to do??
October 28th, 2011 at 11:54 pm
i have a problem on my xbox 360 because whenever i plug my easy cap into my pc my ulead soft ware wont detect it at all and will only detect my built in webcam also if i attempt to change the source to dtv (the only other option) the ulead automatically re detects my webcam how else can i get my xbox to detect
December 11th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
i dont have the disk to download the drivers and the installation
January 4th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
I Have broken my cd for the easycap can anyone give me a download link to a install for it?
Thanks
February 20th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Michael Jones: Why can’t you just record the commentary as normal through your mic using a different software (such as Audacity), then overlay it onto the recorded video afterwards?
March 19th, 2012 at 4:04 am
Couldn’t you just use a RCA Y-Splitter? connecting the wii to the female side and the esaycap and tv to the other side?