Thread 106277078

>want to make my old Xbox a "program" on my PC, like i can get a live feed from its HDMI port and multitask/shitpost
>try using the Xbox streaming thing (wireless, but both my PC and console are on Ethernet)
>runs like shit
>buy a $20 capture card with USB 3.0 on a whim
>runs like shit in OBS
>look it up, apparently you need like a $400 capture card in order to do it without a fuckton of input lag/screen tearing
I'm not even trying to play games in 4K, just old 1080p. I don't want to buy a second monitor.

i have a capture card from like, 2017 that i bought for the PS4 when i found out that sony doesn't allow in-game screen caps and i had to screen cap the game footage through OBS. it has no lag and you can play from the monitor as if it were native. it costed me nowhere near $400.

has the capture card market gotten that bad?

>>106277359
I have a half dozen cheap capture cards I got through Amazon Vine. All work lag-free, but not all deliver the same quality. I cherrypicked the best three to keep, but one died. OP must have gotten the worst one ever.
One capture card sample I got is USB 2.0 but advertised asUSB 3.0 and delivers the poorest quality. That detail went into my review. You can double check if a device advertisedas "USB 3.0" actually is USB 3.0 using USBTreeView, a free app that gets you USB device and port technical data in gory detail..

>>106277430
i wanted guaranteed no latency so i bought a capture card that connects via PCI express and loved it.

>>106277481
I use my capture cards to turn my laptop into a portable monitor for my PS4 sometimes. Latency is pretty subtle, I don't notice unless I look for it.