Any recommendations for a good capture card?
2 years ago

Hi, I recently wanted to record a video of my game. What do you recommend? I saw a 109.99 capture card on sale at dealnews today, and the discount is a bit steep. I'm not sure if I should buy it, should I choose an elgato capture card? But the elgato capture card is a bit expensive. I'm a little confused ......

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Valhalla

Section 7 of FAQs: https://www.speedrun.com/speedrunning/thread/pt010 That being said, recording with a phone or camera is perfectly fine and allowed on almost all leaderboards (as the FAQs + recommended capture card thread ( https://www.speedrun.com/streaming_recording_equipment/thread/1mkl1 ) found in the FAQs suggest).

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Finland

30$~~? i doubt thats going to even work or if it is its going to have some giant drawback

Germany

I highly recommend the el cheapo. This is a lenghty read but a good one and one of the cheapest capturing devices you will find. It is also very good. https://twitter.com/linkboss/status/1376973863549014016

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Germany

Can confirm, that 15$ dongle is insanely good for the price and all you need if 720/60 or 1080/30 is good enough for you.

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United States

Huh, good to know.

I've got a WiiStar USB-C for my capture, but it's fiddly at times. This thing looks better than what I've got for a little less than half the price.

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Germany

The thing with cheap capture devices is that they are hit or miss. The El cheapo and all of his friends (copies of the same chip) are proven to be stable and can be easily found. And funnily enough, most of the more expensive no name products just use the same internals and increase the price by a good amount.

Pear likes this
Valhalla

The cheap ones are pretty solid for 720p from my experience, but I had issues w/ 1080p 60 fps. Also the fact that you need to buy an HDMI splitter was off-putting for me. When I was buying, the price of the mirabox was about the same as those 2 things combined and I've been using it with next to no issues so far.

@SioN as I stated above, the mirabox is only like $40-50 on amazon depending on your country (apparently it's $100 in canada for some reason), but it works fine and has passthrough. Haven't tested any 4k capabilities since I don't have anything 4k, but it works great for 1080p.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Ontario, Canada

You don't even know what console he is trying to capture hdmi from. If it is a ps3 he needs a splitter anyways, unless the mira also strips hdcp

Valhalla

@Dyne_Nuitari hdmi is captured the same way on every console (to my knowledge), he won't need a splitter since the mirabox has passthrough.

Valhalla

I believe the capture card he was wondering about also had passthrough.

Germany

HDMI has HDCP, which needs to be stripped for some platforms (f.e. Ps3 has HDCP enabled and it cannot be disabled). A cheap HDMI splitter strips "unintentionally" the HDCP off the HDMI signal, therefore you can record the PS3.

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