Does your PC Need This?? - Capture Cards Explained

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Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[nicksapgames]

Linus: why haven’t we made a video on capture cards in 5 years?
...
Well no one was paying us

[flavio-machado]

For PC gaming, only if you are a streamer with dual setup where one of them does the capture and encoding and the other one focus on the game for better FPS performance.

[Philipp..]

*428 TB of "Useful Software" I see...*

[omxls]

"If you have a low budget motherboard"
"4k webcam, 4k capture card"
Priorities.

[MRDDev]

Why didn't we do a video on a capture card in 5 years?
Real Answer: No one was sponsoring that.

[Ashiente]

The intro: I wasn't interested... BUT THEN THEY OFFERED ME MONEY

[davykeizer]

AMD and Corsair: Can you do a review on this pc we made?

Linus: So guys take a look at this capture card that came with this pc

[kingofhogwarts]

Before watching the video just judging on the title:

No, probably my pc won't need this

[mr-nb]

Would have appreciated comparisons to competitor hardware i.e. Black Magic, AverMedia, Razer. Usually I'm not disappointed with LTT videos, I find them by-and-large informative and entertaining; however, this was pretty meh I'm sad to say.

I hope to see some better content about this product class since a lot of people are becoming interested in streaming video content from consoles/DSLRs for better visual quality in social engagements over the web. I myself am trying to find a good solution for pulling video from my DSLR for Zoom calls, but I'm not willing to commit to Elgato simply because they appear to be market leader.

[MattiaMari]

The shakiness of that chair is making me uncomfortable

[MrDnB]

"I wasn't really impressed with any of them... " (until corsair paid me to make a video about one)

[Lardzor]

It's not just cost that differentiates the PCIE cards. It's also whether it requires a 1x slot, or a 4x slot. Most motherboards have the 1x slots controlled through the chipset. This won't affect the PCI lanes on your video card. If you use a 4x card, then you will most likely need to use a full sized PCIE slot and you will be sharing PCI lanes with your video card. This will drop the available PCIE lanes from 16 to 8 in most cases.

[Bugattiboy]

Remember when Linus said he didn't want sponsored videos to have clickbait titles because it was important to him that people know it was a sponsored video? Because I do.

[ampillustrations]

Linus: "today we're talking about capture cards"
Linus' chair: "HELL YEAH!!"

[Blazagg]

A common setup that wasn't considered in the video is a two pc setup where the main one used to game or what have you and the secondary one has a capture card and handles the streaming or video recording. This has major benefits as the entirety of the video processing needed for streaming or recording is done on another computer. Moreover, if one crashes the other should still be working (typically this would allow the stream to go on). The one drawback is that it means you now have two computers to control instead of one.

[fremmenista]

7:05 - Do people still use FRAPS?? It hasn't been updated in 7 years and is really outdated compared to most other screen capture software.

[Kaceydotme]

I'm a creator and I work with a HD60 Pro daily, and I'd like to expand a bit on what Linus said in this video. Another convenience benefit of PCI-e over USB that Linus didn't address is audio and audio latency. He says that PCI-e is "lower latency" but he doesn't mention how drastic it is. When I had a USB Elgato, there was a good 1.5 to 3 seconds of delay on both video and audio. With the HD60 Pro, there's only a couple hundred ms. It's not ideal for playing competitive or fast paced games on, and you should still use passthrough. HOWEVER, it does save me a step of connecting audio output to my monitor as you can use monitoring in OBS to hear the audio since the delay is rather insignificant. I do this for everything from playing casual and retro games, to playing Modern Warfare on my laptop passed through my desktop capture card, to endurance and Formula 1 racing with a wheel, all through my computer's speakers or headphones.

Also, not needing to switch inputs if I just need to grab footage of something for a video but not play the game seriously is very convenient, as I can just use the preview window as it's "Good Enough."

The HD60 Pro has also been significantly less picky with input resolution than the USB card before it, though I'd still recommend other retro creators buy something like a Framemeister or OSSC (ideally both) to make sure that whatever you feed the capture card will be accepted. The Framemeister will take anything I feed through it or the OSSC (HDMI from OSSC to Framemeister), allow me to scale it and zoom/adjust it to be the proper aspect ratio and screen position/size, and then spit it out in 1080/60. When using cheaper solutions like HDMI converters for original Xbox, I had serious issues with games like Enter The Matrix, which display in 1080i at 60FPS, having their framerate halved by the Elgato, as well as having issues around the edge of the picture that would normally be hidden by overscan. The Framemeister+OSSC combo resolves this entirely, and looks far far far far far better than the HDMI converter to boot.


If any other creators have questions about this kinda stuff feel free to reply and ask away, I doing this.

[derHutschi]

"When our sponsors reached out to us" thanks for being honest

[louiefriesen]

AMD: Sponsors video
Linus: **USES NVIDIA GPU**

[morgan]

7:05 doodling a self portrait...pretty good likeness...don't forget the beard.