Recording Gameplay

Well I have been thinking about this for a while now but unfortunately can not justify the cost of a Hauppauge HD PVR and thought that the cost of a Dazzle or EzCap would just be a waste of money but then I saw this snide EzCap on the bay for £5.50 and thought what the hell.

It arrived this morning and I made a quick recording which Ive edited down to just a short clip and whilst the quality is not that good, I dont think its that bad for a fiver.

See what you think?

https://youtu.be/q5tC7v7gaiI

That's REALLY good quality mate - using Dazzle, VirtualDub ffdshow....I'm getting bad quality vids where you can barely read the letters in the "Flag circle".

You certainly can't clearly see which gun I am using when I kill someone.

For a fiver that is amazing pal! Great finding

Sid thats cool - how long does ot record/capture for

Yes good deal

For the price I don't think you could ask for much else! Good find!

I think that's pretty good quality, especially for the price. I'd say that's a good find.

Thats Brill Quality - £5 or not!

dang... thats just about as good as my pvr. do you get any lag while using it?

Dont get any lag as I still play on the TV. I split the signal to the TV and the Laptop I record on. The only problem is it only records in quite low resolution so I have to change the TV settings every time I want to record anything which is a pain the the ass. Also have to switch between HDMI and component cables.

I used the Debut Video Capture, Virtual Dub with ffdShow compression to record it and rendered it in Sony Vegas where I added sharpening and some colour correction.

I dont understand the tech side of it too much I just watched a bunch of Youtube tutorials and basically copied other peoples settings for pretty much everything.

The longer clips I record the harder it is to work with the file in VirtualDub, well it is on my laptop as its a bit old and not that powerful Dual Core 1.86ghz 4gb RAM. Then I have to transfer the file over to my desktop were I run the Sony Vegas as my desktop is more powerful.

I havent recorded much else as it is such a pain but Ill have to have another session soon as I do quite enjoy messing about with stuff like this.

I would still like a PVR though I'm not kidding myself over the difference in quality but like I said, for the money its pretty good.

Yep, pretty good quality for a Fiver.

the quality is good, but the audio seems a bit.... what's the word.... sounds like when you unplug your cable box when it gets loud

Sid Bonkers wrote:

Dont get any lag as I still play on the TV. I split the signal to the TV and the Laptop I record on. The only problem is it only records in quite low resolution so I have to change the TV settings every time I want to record anything which is a pain the the ass. Also have to switch between HDMI and component cables.

I have to do the same with my pvr, so that's just a necessary evil until a pvr comes out that can use hdmi

wolfkeen wrote:

the quality is good, but the audio seems a bit.... what's the word.... sounds like when you unplug your cable box when it gets loud

Funny you mention that as I have just bought a Y splitter cable so I can plug the two audio cables into the 3.5mm mic input jack on my laptop rather than the EzCap thingy so I can record the sound direct onto the laptop, which I have read gives a much better/clearer audio signal.

Yet to try it, but got my fingers crossed on this one

Sid hope ur on today to get some pics of us vid looks awesome get some team vids of us