Capturing VGA/TTL Video Footage From Retro PCs
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025
- Recording gameplay and software using original vintage computer hardware can be a bit of a challenge with all the weird resolutions and refresh rates involved. Here are my current methods, step by step!
Here's a list of my most-used hardware:
DTECH Powered 500MHz VGA Video Splitter
CablesOnline 3.5mm Stereo Audio Splitter
Mpow Ground Loop Noise Isolator
Startech VGA2HDMI Pro V1
Avermedia Game Broadcaster HD
Avermedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus
Epiphan AV.io HD
MCE2VGA
Thanks to all your suggestions, I've replaced my Dtech VGA splitter box with an Extron DA2 Plus amplified splitter.
The resulting bump in quality is fantastic, very much recommended!
As part of my channel lineup, I'd like to do some commentary while playing old games that meant something to me... specifically on a Windows 98 machine. You had a lot of various equipment in this video for options... but what's the simplest and/or cheapest way for a novice like me to capture the footage?
@@inkshock Still relevant, so thanks for responding! How much do one of those bad boys cost?
Have you tried the open source scan converter for PC VGA? It allows for specific refresh rate timings. I'm currently looking into the box for using old PC's on modern displays, but it converts a signal to HDMI. You would be able to capture that easily.
@@30AndHatingIt a year late, but a video card with DVI-I or DVI-D out and a DVI->HDMI cable provided you can push at least 720p minimum would be an inexpensive option, not accounting for capture card. Failing that, you may have to add some kind of scaler box in there like the OSSC, as previously mentioned, and use VGA as the OSSC should be able to scale things to a resolution/framerate current capture cards can accept. Cheapest of the cheap would be to hope FRAPS had a version that works on 98 and hope your system can cope :)
A one-stop shop thing would be to find something like the Epiphan DVI2USB 3.0 (if you can find one used for a sane price as they retail for ~$800 USD) or an Epiphan DVI2PCIe (sometimes you're lucky and they pop up for ~$100 USD and work pretty well, at least the one I have does). You'll have to use an audio cable splitter to go to your recording PC's line-in and your speakers, and you'll have to find a VGA->DVI-I cable/adapter which isn't hard since there's plenty on, say, Amazon (just make sure its DVI-I or DVI-A). You've a choice of using Epiphan's Capture Software (needed at minimum to configure the device, so you're installing it anyways) or something else like OBS since it just shows up as a video capture device to that kind of stuff. The DVI2USB SOLO probably won't work, before you stumble upon that, as the product brochure says it uses a DVI-D setup despite the port looking like DVI-I so unless you toss the OSSC+adapter in between that's a no-go (but an option if you go that route)
Video splitters can be added if you want
Welcome to LGR making of thing.
Welcome to an LGR thing about the things I use to make LGR things
I sometimes wonder what Clint would say in bed... "Grrreeetings! And welcome to my LGR thing!"?
Oh boy! I wonder what you'll be uploading on the 19th!
A Sims 4 review :P
Didn't know you followed this channel. Regardless, I am waiting in anticipation. ;)
Valve News Network ditto
Wow didn’t know that you watch lgr
It's not like there's gonna be any anniversary coming up :P
I love your videos, they are relaxing.
Dont mind me as I watch all your videos on auto play to help me get a peaceful sleep.
The hardest working lazy gamer
I just subbed to you a couple of months ago and you've became one of my favourite channels. As a sound engineer and tech geek by default, I'm fascinated by these "behind the scenes" kind of videos.
man, this really shows the effort you go to for such beautiful and crispy videos
keep up the good work good work lgr boi
Luna Tulpa That's cropped porn I bet
@@nap8187 sure is :3
Seeing Half-Life on a CRT monitor is pure nostalgia.
Nice. What I like to do, and this doesn't work of course for older machines or setups, is use cards with DVI and a DVI to HDMI Dongle. Most modern capture devices are fine with this, though many don't support PC resolutions like 1024x768 and only 720p or 1080p, but enough do support 1024x768 and 1280x1024. I also had a ton of issues with audio interference when recording. What works best for me is recording with a battery powered devices, or using a sound card with optical output.
Optical is best when applicable.
@@Obie327 Yea, with cards as recent as Live! or Vortex 2, optical is available, but anything older and not so much.
So a solution that'd only work for his XP rig or anything newer? (Or with even more adapters, converters and fiddling.)
Going digital is great, but seeing that both HW and SW from days of yore aren't exactly blessed with it, and/or have some weird quirks in their implementation, I'd personally want to see a quality allround ADC solution, like Clint mentions alternatives to. VGA is such a prevalent standard over time, so if you can capture those signals well (even in weird resolutions and/or refresh rates - niche market at best), that'd be so much more versatile than a digital setup.
Always great to see you and Clint brainstorm in both comments and videos though, you both inspire retroists a lot!
PeTTs0n88 I use DVI to capture Windows 98 and DOS. Nvidia cards seem to work best for this. Vortex 2 and Live! also work great with Windows 98 SE, and to a certain degree with DOS.
@@philscomputerlab I tend to find the optical output on my Live not to work properly in all games, especially in DOS (zero volume, if any sound at all, despite mixer and Win9x settings) - the Vortex 2 is pretty great apart from the FM synth. Agreed on the DVI output though - GeForce 4 for instance works absolutely flawless with everything I throw at it, from DOS to XP.
But I have had some bad experiences with digital audio in old rigs - and when it comes to some awesome old school stuff (3DFX especially), digital video isn't an option either. That said though, there are ofc PCI cards with digital video outputs, unsure how compatible they are in general with older HW and SW? (Say, a 486 with a PCI card modern enough to output DVI?)
Analog audio quality compared to digital though... I definitely won't argue there, the DAC and amplification components used on old sound cards weren't always that great. 😛 nor how the signals were handled.
Man, that old main menu for Half-Life. Seriously the best.
Brings back a lot of memories
i've spent my childhood playing it, mindblowing back then..
I really miss the original menus for Half-Life & Team Fortress Classic... The Steam versions' menu text are way too small on a high rez display.
A wave of nostalgia hit me while watching that screen.
Nice avatar o3o
This has been a question of mine for SO LONG now; finally this video is a thing!
It's really amazing what you can do with all these devices and computers. Besides that, you're 20k subs away to hitting that 1 million subs milestone! Let's get you to the big mill!
Didn't know it took this much work to make your videos. I will appreciate them even more from now.
I don't know what most of this stuff means but it's impressive how much work goes into the videos you make. Thank you for the hours and hours of hard work!
This answered virtually every question I’ve had about how you capture video from the PCs. Thanks Clint! Gonna order one of those coffee cups next week, I want it!
Loved the video!!
I love this kind of... techy, jumble, mix performance of several gadgets together... kind of thing!
I wish you'd do more like this! Even if it is on the same topic, like, a video on sample captures, light editing, etc.
Thank you, Clint! This was awesome of you!
that mx518, oh the memories. Mine died recently after more then 10 years of loyal service. It was the only mouse that could survive my gaming style (throwing all the stuff when losing).
Maybe a special video about gaming mice over the years, there are some funky ones out there.
I found mine in pretty bad condition in the flea market. After a cord swap and a deep cleaning it was back to life, still alive after almost 10 years.
First thing I saw!
LGR already did a review of a pink woman body mouse. It was a very funny video
Thumbs up for MX518. Mine died too...
oh clint.
Thanks Clint. Thanks for explaning how you capture the graphics. I used to joke my first IBM XT PC with the slow phosphor display is so old it is powered by coal! Best wishes from England.
HALF-LIFE 1 - at last! I've been waiting for this since I started to watch your channel. I hope you will release it soon!
Great stuff - always good to know what hardware different RUclipsrs' use. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see the hardware you use Clint, great video
LGR, my favourite RUclipsr!
The feeling mutual!
This is some very complex behind the scenes. I love it.
Forgot half-life is turning 20 this year damn
gooooood
What do you think of the rumors of an upcoming HL2 prequel/HL1 Sequel? I personally won't believe it until it is available for purchase, but I find the idea interesting.
@@Dr_Andracca tha will be very goooooood
Ah that noisy soundcard thing .. I remember how I could hear the mouse moving on our first soundcard .. and harddisk access. Being granted, the hard disk itself was louder most of the time, but ..
Oh dear, sounds like integrated audio to me. Very annoying when you work with audio, but also kinda funny when you'd load something up from a CD and you could hear the drive ramping up through your headphones. Sounds you'd only hear in an old arcade game haha. (:
Oddly enough though, it was only the front panel that'd be affected. The rear panel sounded fine to me. Might've been some weird interference that caused that.
Hi All. Yes one of my older machines does it, i cant recall if it is the Dell 2400 when using win98 ( it triple boots dos , win98 win 98 ) or the Gateway 2000 Pentum 2 - 233 in 98, i am not sure if that machine has built in audio, as i am still running SB16 and the SB propritory 2x cdrom, everytime i move the mouse it makes a noise
That was like my SB live 24bit. I could loudly hear the frame rate and boy was it high pitched when playing ut2004 hitting 600fps in some parts back in the day lol. SB - frame rate too high ! "autistic screeching!!"
Turned out to be a dodgy AGP slot so I fixed it by modding my case's card slot screw hole location so I could mount my 6600GT at a angle to make proper contact with the pins in the slot. It also fixed the weird missing textures and BSOD I used to get in some games lol
@@pierdeer that is not limited to integrated audio. A lot of old systems can have noise on the ISA bus, that gets coupled into the analogue portion of soundcards. To mitigate that you have to plug the soundcard in the farthest slot from anything else and then shuffle around or replace cards until the noise is either gone or at least weakened enough to be satisfactory.
i had that using my 1979 pioneer receiver connected directly to my pc integrated audio, a little ground loop transformer disabled the noise.
"Welcome to a brief LGR thing while i work on more involved LGR things" ... ... yup, instantly hyped. Plus, I love the fact that when you get questions about something you don't just write a few comments, you go ahead and make a video about it.
I see my mouse's twin MX518 hanging out on the retro PC. Good choice. STILL a good choice today, in fact.
Hey Clint, one thing that will help out with hums and noise, is making sure everything is plugged into the same electrical outlet. Use a strip or 2 if needed. As long as you do not draw more then 15amps you wont pop a breaker. This will help greatly with ground loops.. Chasing down hums and buzzing is the bane of my existence.
Wait a minute.. you have a "modern" pc??
My mind is blown! I always imagined you editing on a magic typewriter and being really good at stop frame animation!
Hello LGR, I work as an event technician in germany and i deal with hummloops on a daily basis. If you have problems with hummloops and look for a more professional solution i would rly recommend you the line isolation boxes made by a company called palmer (even though 10 buck amazon line filters do work, im sure the quality of the audio signal would improve) or use a 20 dollar DAC from amazon.
Also send, return, split or duplicate (especially scale!!!) different kind of video signals is another thing we do quite often, we use boxes called multi format scalers by a company called kramer, their higher quality products are quite expensive but you should definetely check them out, look for a product that has the functions you are looking for and look for used ones on ebay or used event gear .
greetings from germany, love your work dude !
Man I know how it goes with crazy I/O for capturing. Glad you've got a system that works!
Yay! Been wondering this for a while.
It may be scattered but it has helped me figure out what to do for my videos. I have tried to use software for doing a better video on my xp64 bit build and yeah that was a huge waste of time. You are the reason why I started my channel, Thank you. If you ever need help finding a part feel free to email me on my channel and I will see what I got. P.S. I would love too see you do a 386 video.
Great video and cool tips on capturing devices! I was really hoping to work with VGA directly but since LGR also switched to HDMI capture, I'm starting to think that there's no easy way to do it :(
After your last video I started looking for some capture devices on my own but ended up with GameBroadcaster as well. I'll just leave two quick notes for random commenters who'd think to try same way:
1) Stay clear of cheaper models of Epiphan devices (mostly the red ones). I bought VGA2USB thinking it should be enough and while the image is crystal clear and the grabber works with most of DOS custom resolutions, it handles 15fps at most, so it really sucks for games.
2) GameBroadcaster has real issues when capturing almost anything from DOS, but can be made to work if you switch resolution to something compatible first (like 640x480) and keep recording while you reboot, load different games etc. You will just need to crop the footage afterwards.
Also, the name of the VGA-to-HDMI thingamajig is missing from the doobleydoo. :)
Cheers!
Love that your wallpaper on your regular pc is a Ford RS200 one the best rally cars of all time
For my current captures, I've been using an Avermedia LGP Lite and VGA to HDMI ET110 adapter (which doesn't scale the incoming video). It works well for anything at or above 640x480.
For older DOS stuff, I've been experimenting with my Compaq Armada M700's mirrored display feature - it conveniently scales the VGA output to 1024x768 at 60hz when enabled... which it does by default. Unfortunately the audio on these systems is very noisy, and the image isn't always centered properly.
If you're having problems with audio ground loop hum, try passing the audio through an optical step. As long as the analog-optical converter doesn't introduce noise of its own, the optical line definitely gives full isolation between the components.
HL1... always good :3 Thanks for t he whole info video about your setup and the devices you use !!!
About the stand-alone capture solutions, in this case the AVerMedia 2 Plus: I have been using a Hauppauge HD PVR Rocket for capturing speed runs off my Super NT (a SNES/SFC clone with HDMI output). For me it is really important that I don't require a PC for my capturing. By default the Rocket will use the input resolution as an output resolution. The Super NT looks best in 1080p, so naturally that's how I want to have it set up when I play. However, the Rocket only supports 60 fps for 720p and below, for 1080p it will capture at only 30 fps. Luckily, the Rocket also supports using it as a capture device with a computer over USB. The capturing software supports overriding the output resolution for a specific input resolution. This allows me to have a 1080p source and encode it into 720p with 60 fps. One nice (but undocumented) feature (or maybe it's a bug) of the Rocket is that it stores its configuration in the device itself (as opposed to the software enforcing this at capture time). This means that the override is now also active when I use the Rocket in stand-alone mode.
The point of me writing this comment is that maybe the Rocket is not the only device that takes this approach. Perhaps the AVerMedia 2 Plus and other stand-alone capture cards do the same thing. Just my two cents...
My wish is your command. I just watched the CRT recording video and wanted to see something like this and here it is.
I love how the guy who has all of the coolest vintage tech also has some of the dankest modern tech.
This is perfect timing. I've been wondering good solutions for this for a while, but web searches haven't pulled up much that's really all that useful. I'll definitely be looking into a couple of the boxes you named here. Hopefully some are still available.
OK, story time:
I've been looking heavily recently in particular because I am building several retro machines, one with Win '95, one this past week with '98, and another with XP. Fortunately the XP one isn't DOS-focused so it's been the smoothest in terms of setup and capture. I have a beefy GPU from 2011 or so in it (a bit overkill for XP) and I can just use its HDMI out and run the games at higher resolutions that capture cards like (720p or 1080p).
For older Windows stuff on the other hand, it gets a little more complex, but still doable with my setup. For 640x480 and up, I can generally feed a signal through the Framemeister and it will be fine as long as I a have the Windows monitor/adapter refresh rate set to 60hz. If I'm using VGA I'll have to run it through the OSSC first (OSSC straight into my capture card doesn't play nice for this purpose), but the FM will take most older 4x3 resolutions and will upscale them to a more standardized 720p or 1080p, still keeping the original aspect ratio in the process. 1024x768 in particular works great, which is ideal for my '98 system. On that system with DVI, I can use a DVI to HDMI adapter and bypass the OSSC completely, and Windows resolutions down to a minimum of 640x480 at 60hz seem to work fine.
MS-DOS games at 320x240 are another story all together. On the '95 build, I *was* able to pass VGA into the OSSC, and send that into the FM to standardize the upscale, and that worked as long as I was using a Diamond Stealth III (Savage 4 Pro 8MB). However, when I switched to the TNT2 M64, it ceased to grab the DOS signals (640x480 at 60hz in Windows games were still fine).
I had a revelation with this on my '98 rig over the weekend--well, temporarily anyway. On Saturday and Sunday, using a DVI to HDMI adapter and running that straight into the FM (bypassing the OSSC completely), full screen 320x240 DOS games were being picked up perfectly. They looked and ran great. Unfortunately, time for work came, so I shut everything down and left for the night. I come back Monday morning, powered everything back up, and the 320x240 stuff (even the BIOS) refused to capture, despite me doing absolutely nothing to the setup. Needless to say, I'm back to square one with DOS capture and am still looking for the ideal solution.
Great video man, thank you, I was wondering how to capture VGA with out a fuss, I've seen that startech on amazon, or at least a newer version and never thought to just output that to my elgato, duhhhh - I will be stealing some of your tactics for sure!
Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. The time is... eight... forty-seven...AM. Current topside temperature is 96 degrees. The Black Mesa Compound is maintained at a pleasant 68 degrees at all times.
Fond memories of that intro speech.
Those Avermedia cards dope. I've done so much with them, including ripping VHS tapes!
Another nice behind-the-scenes video Clint. I was going to ask what you use to edit video but you answered me in the video. I also use Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Have you looked at Black Magic capture devices?
Yep! They have promising stuff, along with devices from Datapath and Epiphan. But it's tough to find the right mix of price/performance, especially when many products don't specifically state if they support lower resolutions and odd refresh rates :)
LGR Yeah, I would be worried about the odd standards as they focus mainly on HDTV and broadcast standards. So you’re most likely better off with your current configuration. We use them all the time in the event and broadcast world. I had to get «illegal» chinaware in order to bypass HDCP (screw that crap! 🤨) and the unstable low SDTV signals from such old things as game consoles... even the N64 is not stable enough to work with our $100.000 premium event scalers! 😜
You can bypass HDCP with a HDMI 1.3 splitter at least thats what I do for capturing my PS3 using a Black Magic Intensity Pro
Friends don't let friend buy BlackMagic ;) And yeah, pretty much any splitter strips out HDCP, I love using these USB powered HDMI splitters, work flawless for both duplicating the displays plus stripping out HDCP www.ebay.com/itm/HDMI-1-in-2-out-Splitter-2-Port-Hub-Repeater-Amplifier-v1-4-3D-1080p-HDTV-ASS/263758984421
@@AndersEngerJensen If you need to capture oddball resolutions with your blackmagic intensity pro card check out AmaRecTV www.amarectv.com/english/amarectv_e.htm
half life 20th anniversary review coming up. calling it
I daily the same keyboard and mouse (Blue label Model M 52G9700 and MX518) they're a pretty awesome combo. I also use to have the Gateway VX700 but I e-wasted it 10 years ago.
This helped me out a lot I do video archiving and want to be able to deinterlace the signal before it reaches my laptop turning 8 years old this year. I found a great VGA scaler which does an excellent job of deinterlacing so I am going to purchase the AV.io as soon as I get the money.
Love that Logitech MX518 you got there.
Clint finally answering the *REAL* questions.
What's that button-and-knob-festooned device on the right of your desk, visible at 6:25?
Groundloops are caused by not properly earthed outlets. Many older houses just use the neutral wire for earth, but nowadays you have a separate earth wire. The neutral is never exactly at 0 volts, because your devices push energy through it and the resistance causes some fluctuaction around 0 volts - the hum you can hear on the speakers.
One solution is to get properly earthed devices or connect every one of them to the same outlet with a distributor.
Have you considered using blackmagic design gear?
I want to say that I love all your videos, and I've learned so much about retro or Antique electronics back in the day and age everything was more complicated then today's technology you see and I just love the feel of going back in time and feel how people in that day in age that had to use that technology that isn't much to today's technology but is still really charming and amazing in it's own way to stop anyone in there own tracks and say "hey I need this in my life" and I just find your channel really inspiring to see how much love and care you put into all these old software's but I do have one question that may be really stupid especially if you already had mad a video explaining the mechanics of MS-DOS but you've been in almost every video I've watched from you, you tend to talk about MS-DOS or Microsoft-Desktop Operating System but what exactly are the mechanics of it with all the CRL's that are used and how to use or how a floppy disk like how to save all the codes to it's sensory card for old video games (I think it's called CRL's but I'm sorry if I'm incorrect, my computer knowledge is not that wide ranged when it comes to technology also I don't think you can really save anything like that to the floppy disk cause I remember one episode you said that you would type in all the codes and you'd have to keep the game up once you got it typed for a few days cause once you turn the monitor off all your data would be deleted and if you wanted to play that game again you'd have to type it all in again)
But I'm sorry that this is a long comment but I love your channel so much, but I had a few questions, and I'm sorry if this comment didn't make much sense I tried to explain my question as best as I could that would kinda make sense but I'm sorry if you already made videos upon this again but, I love all your videos
irrelevant comment, but I'm literally here monitoring your channel hourly waiting for your sims 4 get famous review
Watching this whole video I was like "whaaaat... no way!" because I use a lot of the same pieces in my capture setup. I split the video so I can monitor it without lag (though I use an LCD because of space constraints), I have the same scaler and toblerone device. The biggest problem I have with my setup is on the analog side. I have a passive splitter and 4-way switchbox that add quite a bit of noise, and my Voodoo makes it even worse. It's still good enough for what I do. I think it was just a bit of a shock to see a big channel like yours using something so similar to my cobbled-together rig!
What kind of keyboard are you using for the Win10 video capture machine.
Currently a Ducky One2 with Cherry MX Blues
That StarTech scaler sounds very versatile, nice to see how it's done behind the scenes!
Hi LGR. Have you looked into some of the commercial audio visual branded scalers/switchers such as Crestron, Kramer or Extron? I have been using a Kramer VP-437 switcher/scaler and it seems to handle almost anything I throw at it (I did not know until recently that the PlayStation 2 changed resolution regularly!). Have a dig on eBay.
I have one of these in my workshop at work too (I’m a commercial AV technician), and the local Australian distributors are only more than happy with firmware, tech support and advice, so I’m guessing the America’s will be the same.
I've found the Epiphan DVI2PCIe cards very tolerant of just about any signal I've thrown at it (more so than their USB capture devices, the cards can be coaxed to natively capture 240p video albeit kludgy). Extremely tweakable, and it has a built in scaler to handle resolution changes. They can be had very cheap on ebay if you are patient. It works with Directshow compatible software and also comes with a capture program.
For external conversion, I have found the OSSC very handy. It can run as a dumb VGA to HDMI/DVI converter in a pinch and recent firmware updates even support classic PC 320x200 optimized modes. Its output will trip up some capture cards like the AVermedia though, but the DVI2PCIe takes everything the OSSC outputs. I find its 240p upscaling + the DVI2PCIe card much friendlier than capturing 240p direct.
Ahh~ waking up in the morning with a new LGR video ready to go.
That's life!
Sadly it made me feel like you have lots of single-point-of-failure devices too, so I hope nothing will break on you :(
Connectivity rocks and rocks just as much when it rocks thru an adaptor!
Hey LGR! I get the static also but between my two 2.1 speaker systems. Usually a flick of the switch stops that. I personally wait to turn on the audio until system boots up. (separate power strip) Having a Beefy surge or APC battery system might do the trick. Old houses have old problems. (Seen it first hand) I was thinking you might want the 4th installment of a modern build? 32/64bit Windows 7? 10? Not sure exactly what your current setup is? And glad to be directed to another build video. lol :) Any input or thoughts would help me immensely. :)
Clint, I think you should check out DataPath's offerings on a new internal capture solution. Specifically the Vision RGB E1/E1S card. Could be your next goto for capturing VGA in the future! Thanks for all your do! Loved this insider's look at your method.
- Swerve
Close to 1M subs now, LGR!!!
I always thought this was done with some screen capturing software, something like Fraps. It perplexed me for years wondering just HOW you made those old computers seem to be able to easily capture game footage and have hard drive space to spare. Now I know that's not the case.
Did you try old external AV high-end upscalers from early 2000? (DVDO iScan VP50 Pro for example) I capture with OSSC (from 240p\480i\480p) and nobrand Chinese upscaler from 480p to 720\1080.
P.S. all new 4k cards (even Pro or Broadcasting) has own problems, and you still need proper upscaler. I recommend see something with low-latency and fast resolution switch. Elgato and aver 4k (pci-e x4 cards) actually work not so bad. BlackMagic for example has problems with switching resolutions.
I have a setup where I split the HDMI about 7 times and also strip the 7.1 audio, use it and re-inject 2.0 audio ^^ so I feel you (also gone through some of them, but I am pretty happy with it now - got the same ground-loop-isolators and some others :D - I can recommend something like the headphone 'amp'/splitter: LDHPA4 if you want to split more then two times, the y-cabels don't behave or you need the separate volume control. I fear the day I need to replace one of the components, which are no longer sold ..)
Love the fluffy head crab. It’s cute!
Hey, have you considered using DI Boxes for your ground loop issues like the humming?
That's very neat, I should look more into this as this is so convenient!
will you be revieving the Sims 4 Get Famous ?
Wow fancy modern pc set up ehehe I prefer seeing you with retro stuff tho
Ground loop issues are fascinating, and best of luck. Have you tried finding bare metal and using an alligator clip to connect the two computers together? Also, my capture device is my eyeballs, and all my fans are in my head.
Thanks for buying all this crap to keep us all entertained!
I found this to be quite helpful as i wanted to use my tablet pc to play some old consoles on live (do alot of travelling) thanks lgr!
I have an Epiphan DVI2USB 3.0 that I've used for a few years to capture footage from old PC's, and it has settings for Horizontal Shift, Vertical Shift, PLL, Sampling, and brightness/contrast. You can manually set these or leave it on automatic - automatic is handy for old games that change resolutions (it responds within a few seconds and makes the proper adjustments) but capturing these is a bit of a pain because the software I use (VirtualDub) locks in 1 resolution when you record and when a resolution change happens, it still records at the original resolution, scaling the new one to the old one.
I'd (and I'm sure others) would love to see an update video if you ever wanted to!
Next to Duke 3D my all time favorite game is Half Life and Half Life 2. I've been surprised to never see a review on LGR for it yet. Can't wait!
You would probably be pretty happy with the Blackmagic Video Assist 4k for HDMI capture. I have and use the 1080 version at work and am always surprised by how many different signals and framerates it can scale. HDMI / SDI only of course but it can record to full size SD card in multiple bitrates.
don't worry about this guide guys, just point your camera at the CRT monitor and youre good to go
Is that a ducky one 2 on your desk? I have the SF version! It’s great!
Been looking for some info on this. Got loads of old pc builds but no way to properly capture footage off of them
I remember the pre-Steam Half-Life title screen, with it's "custom game" list. Good times. Remember that one "mod" as they are called now, Counter Strike, I think it was? I hear it was pretty good. I used to play when weapons stayed on the ground between rounds because the devs had yet to code despawning.
If you understood all this then I say good on you! As for me, I'll be honest, the whole thing just whooshed over my head. Still a great video, though!
I noticed you have the same Mackie speakers that I do, I have an issue where when I plug in my iphone via aux I get a weird "zapping" noise, mostly when the phone is getting texts, do you think a ground loop noise isolator would remedy this? Cheers, love the videos.
Nice Logitech mx518, I bough mine back in 2005 and it's still the one I use
In your older machines do you use any IDE to SATA adapters? I'm asking because I have a retro machine I'm working on and I don't want to invest in IDE drives because they're becoming harder to find and I want to future proof the machine a little.
You mention your Lazy Green Giant running Windows 98 and 95 (and your rebuilding videos show you use an SD card for the OS), how quickly does stuff run off memory cards, compared to a normal HDD? and have you ever attempted to run a modern OS from memory cards, like XP, 7, etc?
A question about the Mackey CR4s, do they glow in the dark, i mean the green ring around the speakers and the volume knob ? Thanks.
The Datapath E1S pcie capture card works amazing for VGA capture.
Dude, I need that headcrab plushie. So adorable!
I love the irony of the phrase "soundcards that are noisy".
Hel LGR Did you ever think about making a sleeper PC video? IE a PC that looks old on the outside but is super high speed low drag on the inside.
Thanks for showing us how the magic works, and is anyone REALLY surprised half the gadgets are obsolete?
Well prepared equipment, have to say
Clint. I highly suggest that you look into Extron stuff for VGA splitters. It's broadcast grade and can be had for cheap . Bye bye interference! output signal is as pristine as input signal, everytime. They also let you adjust the audio gain of all inputs independantly, which is frankly very handy. The MVX series of matrix switchers by them is a good example of stuff to look for. There are other, series as well by them such as ARS(splitters). Cheers
I have some Exton BNC splitters, they're great! Definitely need to look into their VGA stuff.
@@LGR Same I have some of their BNC matrixes! But I'll get a VGA one next I think. Although I can use some vga-to-bnc cables in the meantime to get vga stuff connected. But their VGA rack-style switchers are so much thinner and sleek, ya know?