...in order for my laptop acquire YouTube quality videos of Mass Effect 2 from my XBOX360.
I read somewhere that cheaper ones require you to open up your computer and put them in. I am not an expert in computer hardware but I'll be able to figure it out so that's not a problem.
Also, I was going to post this in the "Technical Support" forum but i figured there would be more responses here, what with all of the class gameplay videos and all.
Thanks for any halp. =-D
What's the Cheapest Capture Card I Can Get...
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Posté 21 mars 2010 - 08:59
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I'd like to know this as well, I feel weak not being able to post videos while everyone else is posting speedruns and helpful videos. I AM INFERIOR 
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Posté 21 mars 2010 - 09:00
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As you know, most here are using "fraps" on the PC, which costs only a few dollars (for which I was happy to pay for and support their product).
Capturing live video from an external source on your PC will require opening your PC up and plugging a live capture card into one of the PCI Express slots (or PCI slot, depending on what's available on both your PC and the capture card). Doing this sort of thing is pretty easy. Turn off PC, unplug the power supply, wait a couple of minutes, then ground yourself by touching the PC bare metal case and take off the left side panel. You'll see the expansion PCI slots towards the lower back of the case/board and you just plug your new card in there.
What computer/motherboard do you have? What do you have installed in it already? This would help in making recommendations on whether to get a PCI or PCI Express card.
Beyond that, you'd want a card that can capture and record in at least 720p at 30fps, and if your XBox has HDMI out, that'd probably be best to use, and you'd be looking for a capture card that accepts HDMI in, and allows HDMI pass-through so you can still see what you're playing as it records it.
It isn't going to be cheap though. You'd be looking at around the US$500 mark for such a thing, to do it properly. Otherwise the cheaper cards support much lower resolutions, such a security camera type footage, and if you're impressed by the gameplay videos here, you'll be disappointed with 240i or 480i x 15fps security camera resolution capture.
Capturing live video from an external source on your PC will require opening your PC up and plugging a live capture card into one of the PCI Express slots (or PCI slot, depending on what's available on both your PC and the capture card). Doing this sort of thing is pretty easy. Turn off PC, unplug the power supply, wait a couple of minutes, then ground yourself by touching the PC bare metal case and take off the left side panel. You'll see the expansion PCI slots towards the lower back of the case/board and you just plug your new card in there.
What computer/motherboard do you have? What do you have installed in it already? This would help in making recommendations on whether to get a PCI or PCI Express card.
Beyond that, you'd want a card that can capture and record in at least 720p at 30fps, and if your XBox has HDMI out, that'd probably be best to use, and you'd be looking for a capture card that accepts HDMI in, and allows HDMI pass-through so you can still see what you're playing as it records it.
It isn't going to be cheap though. You'd be looking at around the US$500 mark for such a thing, to do it properly. Otherwise the cheaper cards support much lower resolutions, such a security camera type footage, and if you're impressed by the gameplay videos here, you'll be disappointed with 240i or 480i x 15fps security camera resolution capture.
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Posté 21 mars 2010 - 09:02
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FoFoZem wrote...
use Fraps?
Fraps runs on XBox?
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Posté 21 mars 2010 - 09:35
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I am too poor to be buying a capture card that costs hundreds of dollars for this small recreational use. Does anyone have any experience with the USB video-capturing devices and the xbox 360? Also, I have an HDMI cable which I use to show my computer's display on my TV. Can I finagle it so that it reverses and then use Fraps?
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Posté 21 mars 2010 - 10:57
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questioneer wrote...
I am too poor to be buying a capture card that costs hundreds of dollars for this small recreational use. Does anyone have any experience with the USB video-capturing devices and the xbox 360? Also, I have an HDMI cable which I use to show my computer's display on my TV. Can I finagle it so that it reverses and then use Fraps?
I have no experience with it, but perhaps the Hauppauge USB-Live-2 is possibly what may suit? Is meant to support full NTSC (720x480x30fps).
May want to google a bit and see if anyone's tried using that device to capture/record XBox output.
Seems to sell for around the US$45-55 mark, which is close to what Fraps costs anyway.
