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Can you tell me about this 6 dollar capture dongle? How come people pay hundreds for stuff like ElGato HD whatever to capture and stream their video games? Can
by cdelsolar 4y ago
Can you tell me about this 6 dollar capture dongle? How come people pay hundreds for stuff like ElGato HD whatever to capture and stream their video games? Can a cheap dongle do this too?
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoApparently I paid like $15 or something, but anyways, this is what I bought, prices have changed a bit since then, but identical devices are out there under various ASINs/labels: RCA to HDMI: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RX69KR8/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RX69KR8/ HDMI capture: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088CWQGN5/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088CWQGN5/ As far as game capture, it probably depends on a few things. Name brand definitely has significant markup, but they also include software and such as well. Note that my capture dongle here records in 1080P only, and you'll spend a lot more for 4K-capable hardware, and fancier capture devices offer HDMI pass-through so you can both capture and display on a screen, and this does not. Now, if you want to play your games in OBS at 1080p, this might work for you, I'm not sure where performance starts to degrade for a cheapy dongle like this, but I think there's probably a good reason gaming setups use a little bit higher end setups.