iamEVE-X wrote:I barely have any room as it is, Let alone any more power points, Im convinced that the USB thing is the only way...
I hate to break the news - but It's a terrible way for the most part. I have a number of capture devices ranging from $80 to around $5000.
I bought a cheap USB video cap device similar to the one you linked me as a backup to my mini LCD for Blip fest. I found the latency made it impossible to have a good / usable experience! Even though my mini DSE screen was a bit low res - it was instant latency wise. There might be a newer one that is better but the dead giveaway that the Jaycar one will suck is:
> real time recording MPEG 4/2/1 video formats
Mostly these formats have 18 field GOP structures in their encoder stage - which means a minimum of 350ms delay... if not more. The problem is that the encoder is in the device - so you can't intercept the raw signal and put uncompressed video to screen.
I do have a couple which are almost zero latency - made by Grass Valley - but they are both broadcast PCI cards and PC only. I have a Datavideo Firewire box - but even that has a few frames latency.
Black magic make a similar thing for Thunderbolt - http://www.This spam will soon be delet
/intensity - And reports say it has a 3 frame latency going out (which is what most people are interested in!!) I'd guess it'd do about the same coming in. But then again - a lot can happen in 75 - 100ms ... so for gaming, I'm really not sure any USB cap device is going to work.
So seriously; get something like - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vivid-15-4-H
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Or if you don't have a lot of room; you can use something similar to what I use (and Xyce / 8GB also use) - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/L0608-Eonon-
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Last edited by cTrix (Nov 27, 2013 8:51 am)