Music used from this playlist: For more Epidemic Sound music: link.epidemicsound.com/Focus_Beats_PlaylistVY Songs: Guustavv - Daffodils Guustavv - Willow Trees Yomoti - Before Chill Henyao - Coffee and Unicorns Smartface - Easy Feet Frook - I Need This SINY - NEAR SINY - Shinigami Frook - Sunday Spelunking Henyao - Rainy Sunday Smartface - The Writer Heynao - Time Keeps Moving On TIMECODES: 00:00 Introduction 01:30 What is It? 02:47 Setup Steps 03:41 Hardware Encoder 07:50 System Requirements 08:30 Laptop Testing 10:11 PC Streaming 10:58 Conclusion #1 12:38 Part 2 - Nerds 12:52 Latency 15:07 Chroma Subsampling 16:02 Decode Color Modes 17:56 Linux & Mac OS 20:38 PC Resolutions? 21:08 HDR? 21:12 OSSC & RetroTINK 240p 22:27 HDCP Bypass 23:13 Final Conclusion
as a streaming for the past 7yrs . I can tell you the avermedia is alot faster than el gato HD60s . 3rd party app wise . I run this on younow and i have heavy lag on a 3.0 usb el gato vs a 2.0 avermedia capture card. I think avermedia uses its own power and el gato might use some ram off the pc.
That's going to be dependent on your system specs and the capture software (OBS, RECentral) you have running in the background, etc. and not at all to do with the capture card. And as mentioned, this isn't something you should even be using with a PC
Yes, specs, software, even record settings, and the game can all be factors. Also I was more meaning other more popular capture cards. Elgato HD60 S. Avermedia LGP2. 9900k, rtx 2060. Division 2 benchmark. (Avg fps, 1% low, CPU usage). Graph i.imgur dot com/bYL7Yuq.png
@@EposVox What do you think is causing the FPS loss in the case of Avermedia PC free mode (recording to SD card) or Elgato/Avermedia 2nd PC setup? It is also interesting to see no one cover this when OBS uses the most CPU 48% (total) and beats Elgato/Avermedia 30% cpu. Gamers care about FPS and no one knows.
@@TechCaboose I use the avermedia live gamer 2 and I don't get any loss at all when I use it. the only loss I get is if I use it to record directly into the same pc that I am using. if I record directly into the sd card then I took no loss at all with my fps as far as on my end gaming. I recorded and put on youtube. I did take a loss like using any other recording software when I would record into the same pc I was gaming with. I also did not take a loss when I would stream or record if I used a 2 pc setup. which is what I use anyways. I have my gaming desktop and use a pretty decent gaming laptop to record to or stream thru. and as long as I am recording into the sd card, or onto the other computer again, no loss at all as far as the capture card is concerned.
Hi recently I got an elgato hd60 s but unfortunately my pc didnt have usb 3.0 in my pc so I returned it. I found out about this card and I was wondering if it's worth it for an aspiring youtuber and streamer that makes Nintendo switch videos. What do you think?
21:12 They really need to warn you about compatibility issues on the websites. I have an OSSC and a RetroTINK. The OSSC I particularly love how it handles 288p and 240p content, but the ONLY way I was able to get either of these devices to display on my Sony Bravia and Elgato HD was by routing them through the HDMI input on my old SCART to HDMI.
To be fair, the OSSC is super niche and outside of most companies’ testing scope, and the OSSC is the problem child there, not any particular capture card. And more specifically the nonstandard outputs of certain older consoles being to blame even more so than the OSSC
any thoughts on a capture card for consoles, without running using a PC? the live gamer portable 2 you mentioned seem to be lesser video quality then I'd like.
I really want this but my laptop has not defcated graphics if fine recoring in 1080p 30 or even 720p 60 I have a ryzen 7 3700u 12gb ram but it's ryzen mobile graphics will I be able to do it please I need help
Thanks this helped a lot. I am a single PC streamer and wanted to put it to use, but didn't understand why I would need to. It came together with my webcam, which I've been using since purchase, whereas this has been idle in the box until today. I will go ahead and put it back in the box now that I know it's redundant and quite possibly a step down. ✌️
Sorry my english not good, but i want to ask you, i have 1 pc and i want to record without framedrop can i use avermedia? Since people say it has a onboard hardware encoder on this capture card, am i right?
Hi. Can I connect a digital camera with HDMI output into this capture card to use it as webcam for video streaming with OBS? IS there any constraint? Does anyone knows?
this game capture drops your FPS when you are recording with RECentral? avermedia says that does not happen because it says that it has its own processor and do not load the PC 🤔
Hi. Thank you for the comprehensive review. I have a high-end PC (i7-8700k) etc. but no dedicated graphics card. I think that my CPU has a QuikSync capabilities. Question is: I will only use it to capture the video feed from a camcorder at 1080p and broadcast it over OBS ... to the best of your guesses .... do you reckon it will work? Thanks in advance.
To be fair, most of the original USB 3 computers from that time period had terrible chipsets that had terrible compatibility with a lot of USB 3 capture devices
Okay so I have this and the only way the audio goes to obs or while I’m streaming is if the audio is set to tv/speakers which means I can’t hear the gameplay in my headset. How can my stream hear the gameplay while my headset hears the same thing??? Please help
I have the Avermedia live gamer mini and I set it up the same way, but no sound comes through in streamlabs only video. it only works in there software. Any idea how I can get sound in streamlabs ??
Hi really nice video you got there, but I am wondering ..... Can you Record your Party and Game sound even though you have an Headset connected to your Playstation Controller ? Because I have heard that the HDMI wont deliver sound if an headset is connected .....
I got this capture card recently and I don’t know how to record my audio on it. Game Audio is great and quality is also great but I’ve missed so many funny moments by not recording
Hi, I have a question about the latency that might sounds silly, i'm new to this and not an english native. About the latency, if you play on a second monitor (like a TV with Nintendo switch), do we agree there is no latency in this case ? Because latency is only for the software from what i've understood. I prefer to have confirmation before buying the Live Gamer Mini
I have your cut card: AVerMedia Live Gamer MINI gc311 I'm trying to run it on Windwos 7 64bit. I'm dreaming of quite a lot of trouble and worry. Loading the horror app of Terrible AVerMedia RECentral 4 takes up to 10 minutes is this normal? Further starting video recording a lot of drop FPS in the game it should work at 60 frames. But it's really dropping to 20 and 10 frames !!! Which makes the game absolutely unplayable and has delayed reactions and the screens are falling !!! What the hell?
On Xbox you are able to allow party chat to come through the speakers.. so it will effectively be recorded via the HDMI as game sound. I'm just wondering as to how I'll be able to capture my own voice aswell as speak in party
this thing is like $79 dollars now, that's probably what the price should've been, but despite the usb2.0 part, it's not too far behind the elgato hd60 s. that capture card is usb3, and it only outputs up to 1080p 30. people claim it can do 1080p 60, but not in my experience and i used the card for a bit. the hd60 s plus can do 1080p 60, but the hd60 s in my experience can only handle up to 1080p 30. so the Avermedia Live Gamer Mini is not a bad choice, but the latency is better on the Elgato, and that's thanks to the usb3 connecting. however there both only good up to 1080p 30, but the Elgato can handle it better.
I use my avermedia live portable 2 plus or whatever with ffmpeg to grab the hardware encoded stream in h264 without affecting cpu. Its not great but its good enough for gaming (limited colors). Bitrate at 1080p60 is about 20 Mbit/s but its bot very efficient. I wish obs on linux supported h264 capture cards.
does this capture card only do 20mbs? My old live gamer portable could do 60mbs. i just got this thinking it was going to be an upgrade but the lower image quality really bums me out
Hello. Thank you for your good information. I want to use this capture card for my obs and video recording and not for gaming. Is it suitable or is it just for playing?
@EposVox i have the avermedia mini and i have no issue with it . No lag and runs real time . I have gaming laptops with all of them having 8gb 1070 graphic cards 16gigs of ram . No hicups and i goto other websites to stream with it and still have great frames.
I am not new to streaming. I have used up the only mini pcie slot on my computer and need a USB 2.0 capture card since its the only USB type on my computer.
Hi can you pleeeeaaaaseeeeee answer this for me! Can you record friends party chat audio on ps4? If so can u please make a clip even if it’s unlisted and send it to me please I’m really considering this card. Thanks!
once you have your ps4 plugged into the card with hdmi, you gotta set the chat audio output device to hdmi in the settings. i haven't tried it with this particular card but it should work the same as any other.
I was looking for a capture card to use with OBS and my switch, i want usb 2 because for some reason my usb 3 doesn't seem to recognise. How much lag am i going to get between the game and the stream? I could also do display capture and just play the game from the main screen.
Yeah I just got it in. Can tell you now USB C won't make a difference since the card (as with all capture cards thus far) is still only USB 3.1 Gen 1, not Gen 2 - and frequently the drivers don't want to cooperate on direct USB C to C
Hi im a newbie to gaming and have got twitch and streamlabs etc. right now im using remote play to streamlabs and looking to buy this card so i can ditch remote play. can i use my streamlabs overlays/webcam/mic etc on this as i dont want to over complicate matters.
Interesting device... For my setup I have a BlackMagic Intensity Pro 4k for my HD consoles (PS3/PS4/Switch) and it works great for recording on my Hackintosh on macOS 10.14 Mojave, but if I wanna stream I reboot to Win10, and there I can do anything with no problems or bottlenecks. While I'm on Windows there I also have a Razer Ripsaw that I use for my analog consoles (Japanese SNES aka Super Famicom/PS1/PS2, all connected via HD Retrovision component cables to a component switch box) that's connected to a RetroTink2x (love that thing). I'd connect my RetroTink cluster of devices to my IP4k, but the refresh rate/sync rate for the SFC is juuuust off enough to make footage useless. My Razer Ripsaw seems to like it, so that's why I have it all separated. Anyway, great video. I'm a fellow nerd, so that's why I decided to share my setup here.
Awesome video! However, I'm stuck with one piece of info - and sorry if I missed it. I get that it captures at 1080 60fps, but what's the highest res you can stream live to twitch with it? :)
tengo un problema aver si me puedes ayudar cuando pongo live gamer mini me va perfecto pero no se me escucha el audio del juego , pero cuando pongo live gamer mini stream engine -1 me sale este error / the device is occupied by idle(0). please close the conflicting porfavor nesesito tu ayuda !!
Great insights! Do you think this is worthwhile in 2022 now? Or I should go with BU110. The price for GC311 is around 73 USD from where I’m at now. The BU110 is at 101 USD. Basically will be using it to stream Switch, PS4 Pro and maybe PS5 in the future. What do you think?
Thanks for the review. This may be a stupid question, but would this capture card work for camera capture with an Asus Vivobook F510ua? (For reference that is a laptop with an Intel 8th Gen I5-8250U, Intel UHD Graphic 620, and it would be upgraded to have 16gb of RAM and an SSD.) I would like to stream 1080p 24fps, but 720p would be fine I guess. Would those specs be enough, or would I need a real graphics card? If not, would one of the USB 3.0 capture cards that you mentioned work? Like the one that can record by itself? Or would they run better?,
Is the camlink still your top choice for capturing a DSLR for facecam? I am live streaming my best friends graduation using our two Canon t6i cameras and the last thing I need before I'm ready is capture cards
Since this was posted April 2019, I'm not sure if I'll be getting any much answer from this but I'm just gonna try. I'd like to get a capture card but I'm having second thoughts on getting which one. Either this or the Live Gamer Extreme 2. I have the budget for both but I'd save a lot if I buy this one and since I'm a youtuber beginner and mostly gonna use this to capture my gameplay on my PS4, I'm not looking for anything too high end. The price difference between the two is around USD 61.60.
Does OBS on Mac recognize it if added as a video capture device? Because I'm having that problem on my Elgato HD60. I'm looking for a capture device that I can get the video feed for Mac. Thanks!
The Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus is fine, as long as you don't have too busy gameplay. For example racing games. If you try to record in PC-Free mode then you end up with a pixelated mess as you do not have an option to choose high enough bitrate to make the video not look like shit. If you connected to a PC to use it with the Windows software, then you can pick bitrate, but in that case the device isn't working in PC free mode.
@eposvox i love the content! I have a request. Can you make a video testing the hdmi passthrough of capture cards to see if its compatible with freesync/gsync?
Had a chance to check out the Razer Ripsaw HD yet? I'm concerned that the 4k pass through on any capture device (USB) won't output to display port...which is needed for 4k gsync. Any thoughts?
One just shipped to me, so not yet, but soon. But of course not - Capture cards don't support variable refresh rates whatsoever, and GSync specifically not only requires DisplayPort but requires specifically a GSync dedicated module (hence why GSync monitors are more expensive than non-GSync). It's not an option, period. I've also been told by my Elgato contacts many times that the cost of DisplayPort is not at all worth the niche market that would use it and that such a capture card is just not going to happen. There are a couple DisplayPort capture cards - mainly from Datapath - but they are multiple thousands of dollars and still don't support adaptive sync.
Is there any capture card that is good for single set up PC. I mean it like it will take over all encoding of the video and send it to the TWITCH or RUclips.
not that I know off. surprised though because avermedia live gamer portable 2 capture card itself does the work but then when you go back to the same pc it acts as if the pc is doing the work. that said though, if you want to do youtube videos and only have 1 pc. I do recommend the avermedia live gamer protable 2. you would also need to get nice sd card like 64 gig. you can then record into the capture card onto the sd card. no hit on your gaming session and then later on, access the sd card and upload the video.
I recently bought it for using my ps4 with it, will it work just fine or I could do a smarter thing than buying that prodcut? I'm totally fine with 1080p 60FPS recording but I would like to know if it really was worth my 100$... I have RTX 2080 and Intel Core i7 8700
I'm kind of confused, as my pc with intelHD620 and i5whateverU processor isn't above the recommended spec, but can run software encoding in 720p30fps in OBS quite decently. Does this mean I'm worse off using this card than just using a software encoder?
Depends, keep in mind that a hardware encoder on the capture card has a very rigid limited use case - compositing must happen somewhere before that. It must receive already the footage that you want encoded on its HDMI input. So it entirely depends on what you actually intend to do. You already have a dedicated hardware encoder in your laptop computer, Intel QuickSync, capable of 4K60 H264 encoding. It's part of Intel HD 620/630 iGPU block of the CPU package, but probably doesn't actually share any functional units or fight for resources with the GPU, so it's much more universally useful. Perceptual image quality at a given bitrate on Intel QuickSync varies but should more or less hover around the Fast preset of x264, but at nearly zero CPU utilisation.
AVerMedia - Live Gamer MINI seems interesting, but exclusive on Bestbuy..... its a fail. Hope at some point either Avermedia, ElGato or Magewell make a DP capture card with passthrough, really would useful for a nvidia surround setup.
@@EposVox =(. I can understand that HDMI has a bigger market with Consoles, Cameras and PC, while Display Port is a PC standard only. That said, i do think it would amazing if you didnt have to duplicate/clone on windows, specially for a surround setup (triple monitor) or even a streamer that its using a 144hz display with gsync that needs Display port as its connection for it to work, so we have the video card industry pushing the display port standard as the main interconnect, but we have the capture card industry not supporting it... i would love to abandon Display port and move toward HDMI only for everything, but don't seem to be the case, even more we get 3xDP and 1xHDMI on most video cards. Hope at least Datapath revises their dual Display port capture card to modify one to be a out/passthrough that can pass Gsync, i honestly would pay $2k for it, since all the other manufactures don't seem to be willing to do an affordable card, and probably never will. The other route is if for some reason someone manages to invent a Display port duplicator/switch that actually works. And the last would be for Nvidia and AMD to abandon Displayport and support Gsync/freesync thorugh HDMI and have HDMI monitors that can do high refresh rates.
Does anyone know if there's a difference if I just want to record for RUclips vs streaming it? I only have a laptop with i5 processing, but I don't have any desire to stream. Alternatively is there a way I could capture gameplay footage on a switch with the processing power I have?
good job, but i'm a streamer and i want listen the audio of my console without use a second headset, i can listen my game without problem o i can't use this product? thanks and this product have a problem, can you link me a game capture without big latency? i believe that my English is OK, i'm not a monster in linguages
I have a early 2015 MacBook Pro. 3.1Ghz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 Memory 16GB 1867MHz DDR3. Will this capture card work or what other game capture devices will work with my current laptop?
Today i used it with a i7 8565u , 16 GB of RAm , a mx150 at 1080p60fps in the "optimal" mode. Was great, indeed the only mode in wich the encoder activates is in this mode
Awesome video, naturally I stayed until the end because I'm a huge nerd haha. But yeah, I feel like this could have been a significantly better product if they had spent more time on it, using USB 3 and adding some more features would have been nice. Cutting the price down could have been really beneficial as well. It's 2019, so USB 3 I feel like wouldn't add that much to the cost.
@@dannamanna99 it's more about the bandwidth than what port it uses, I could care less what specification something is, but more bandwidth would allow for many improvements.
@@DerekTurtleRoedepends I guess. I think you can go up but not always down. so a device that uses 2.0 can be used on a 3.0 but if something needs the 3.0 it wont always work with 2.0 then. but I am not a computer tech.
It honestly disappoints me that everyone is dropping analog video output which means people have to use upscalers now for even stuff with component cables, do you have a recommendation for a capture card that can do both HDMI and AV? It seems like they’re all being phased out now.
Music used from this playlist:
For more Epidemic Sound music: link.epidemicsound.com/Focus_Beats_PlaylistVY
Songs:
Guustavv - Daffodils
Guustavv - Willow Trees
Yomoti - Before Chill
Henyao - Coffee and Unicorns
Smartface - Easy Feet
Frook - I Need This
SINY - NEAR
SINY - Shinigami
Frook - Sunday Spelunking
Henyao - Rainy Sunday
Smartface - The Writer
Heynao - Time Keeps Moving On
TIMECODES:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 What is It?
02:47 Setup Steps
03:41 Hardware Encoder
07:50 System Requirements
08:30 Laptop Testing
10:11 PC Streaming
10:58 Conclusion #1
12:38 Part 2 - Nerds
12:52 Latency
15:07 Chroma Subsampling
16:02 Decode Color Modes
17:56 Linux & Mac OS
20:38 PC Resolutions?
21:08 HDR?
21:12 OSSC & RetroTINK 240p
22:27 HDCP Bypass
23:13 Final Conclusion
Will it work on ps4
as a streaming for the past 7yrs . I can tell you the avermedia is alot faster than el gato HD60s . 3rd party app wise . I run this on younow and i have heavy lag on a 3.0 usb el gato vs a 2.0 avermedia capture card. I think avermedia uses its own power and el gato might use some ram off the pc.
If you have a low quality laptop can it work?
Love the format, man. This info is important to have, and this was a very good way to break it all down.
Thanks :)
Rad video man. Much thanks for you documenting compatibility, or lack thereof, with the RetroTink and OSSC. :)
3:41 Do you ever test game fps loss with capture cards? I have a few graphs and can not find anyone else showing results to compare with.
That's going to be dependent on your system specs and the capture software (OBS, RECentral) you have running in the background, etc. and not at all to do with the capture card. And as mentioned, this isn't something you should even be using with a PC
Yes, specs, software, even record settings, and the game can all be factors. Also I was more meaning other more popular capture cards. Elgato HD60 S. Avermedia LGP2.
9900k, rtx 2060. Division 2 benchmark. (Avg fps, 1% low, CPU usage). Graph i.imgur dot com/bYL7Yuq.png
But again - the capture cards themselves are not causing FPS loss.
@@EposVox What do you think is causing the FPS loss in the case of Avermedia PC free mode (recording to SD card) or Elgato/Avermedia 2nd PC setup?
It is also interesting to see no one cover this when OBS uses the most CPU 48% (total) and beats Elgato/Avermedia 30% cpu. Gamers care about FPS and no one knows.
@@TechCaboose I use the avermedia live gamer 2 and I don't get any loss at all when I use it. the only loss I get is if I use it to record directly into the same pc that I am using. if I record directly into the sd card then I took no loss at all with my fps as far as on my end gaming. I recorded and put on youtube. I did take a loss like using any other recording software when I would record into the same pc I was gaming with.
I also did not take a loss when I would stream or record if I used a 2 pc setup. which is what I use anyways. I have my gaming desktop and use a pretty decent gaming laptop to record to or stream thru. and as long as I am recording into the sd card, or onto the other computer again, no loss at all as far as the capture card is concerned.
Hi recently I got an elgato hd60 s but unfortunately my pc didnt have usb 3.0 in my pc so I returned it. I found out about this card and I was wondering if it's worth it for an aspiring youtuber and streamer that makes Nintendo switch videos. What do you think?
21:12 They really need to warn you about compatibility issues on the websites. I have an OSSC and a RetroTINK. The OSSC I particularly love how it handles 288p and 240p content, but the ONLY way I was able to get either of these devices to display on my Sony Bravia and Elgato HD was by routing them through the HDMI input on my old SCART to HDMI.
To be fair, the OSSC is super niche and outside of most companies’ testing scope, and the OSSC is the problem child there, not any particular capture card. And more specifically the nonstandard outputs of certain older consoles being to blame even more so than the OSSC
old video but i really appreciate presentation styles like this.
Great thorough review!
Thanks for watching!
I am a noob and I watched the nerd section... I understood a bit because you explained really well
any thoughts on a capture card for consoles, without running using a PC? the live gamer portable 2 you mentioned seem to be lesser video quality then I'd like.
Great review. I loved how you broke up the review. It flowed well.
I really want this but my laptop has not defcated graphics if fine recoring in 1080p 30 or even 720p 60 I have a ryzen 7 3700u 12gb ram but it's ryzen mobile graphics will I be able to do it please I need help
Thanks this helped a lot. I am a single PC streamer and wanted to put it to use, but didn't understand why I would need to. It came together with my webcam, which I've been using since purchase, whereas this has been idle in the box until today. I will go ahead and put it back in the box now that I know it's redundant and quite possibly a step down. ✌️
Sorry my english not good, but i want to ask you, i have 1 pc and i want to record without framedrop can i use avermedia? Since people say it has a onboard hardware encoder on this capture card, am i right?
Hi. Can I connect a digital camera with HDMI output into this capture card to use it as webcam for video streaming with OBS? IS there any constraint? Does anyone knows?
Yes but you'd be better off using an elgato camlink. I'm using an older Sony action camera (that does 1080p60) with an avermedia xtremecap u3
@@sealance How come? it does 1080 60fps for a Dslr it should be fine.
this game capture drops your FPS when you are recording with RECentral? avermedia says that does not happen because it says that it has its own processor and do not load the PC 🤔
Hi. Thank you for the comprehensive review. I have a high-end PC (i7-8700k) etc. but no dedicated graphics card. I think that my CPU has a QuikSync capabilities. Question is: I will only use it to capture the video feed from a camcorder at 1080p and broadcast it over OBS ... to the best of your guesses .... do you reckon it will work? Thanks in advance.
Did it work?
@13:51
Why would one want Buffering set to ON ?
3:52 the voicecrack came from a different planet!!
Hallo, can it be used to record from a camera / camcorder? Thank you
USB 2.0!? oof...
Honestly, my computer is about 5 years old, and that still uses 3.0.
To be fair, most of the original USB 3 computers from that time period had terrible chipsets that had terrible compatibility with a lot of USB 3 capture devices
I still have usb 2.0
USB2.0 has more throughput than this thing will generate so 3.0 would add nothing aside from a "cool badge" on the packaging.
I use a 12 year old laptop soooo
Top review! Love it, was about to purchase then realised my laptop spec is probably not good enough 👌🏾👌🏾
Okay so I have this and the only way the audio goes to obs or while I’m streaming is if the audio is set to tv/speakers which means I can’t hear the gameplay in my headset. How can my stream hear the gameplay while my headset hears the same thing??? Please help
That was super clear and easy to understand for a noob such as myself.. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
I have the Avermedia live gamer mini and I set it up the same way, but no sound comes through in streamlabs only video. it only works in there software. Any idea how I can get sound in streamlabs ??
Hi really nice video you got there, but I am wondering ..... Can you Record your Party and Game sound even though you have an Headset connected to your Playstation Controller ? Because I have heard that the HDMI wont deliver sound if an headset is connected .....
did you ever get an answer on this?
So this was the huge sequence premiere project
Yep
I got this capture card recently and I don’t know how to record my audio on it. Game Audio is great and quality is also great but I’ve missed so many funny moments by not recording
Hi, I have a question about the latency that might sounds silly, i'm new to this and not an english native.
About the latency, if you play on a second monitor (like a TV with Nintendo switch), do we agree there is no latency in this case ? Because latency is only for the software from what i've understood. I prefer to have confirmation before buying the Live Gamer Mini
Yes, if you connect the HDMI output on this to a second monitor/TV, there is no latency
i need help this capture card or the extreme 2 from avermedia. my elgato got corrupted and its shit. i lost a lot of gameplays using a elgato lmao
I have your cut card: AVerMedia Live Gamer MINI gc311 I'm trying to run it on Windwos 7 64bit. I'm dreaming of quite a lot of trouble and worry. Loading the horror app of Terrible AVerMedia RECentral 4 takes up to 10 minutes is this normal? Further starting video recording a lot of drop FPS in the game it should work at 60 frames. But it's really dropping to 20 and 10 frames !!! Which makes the game absolutely unplayable and has delayed reactions and the screens are falling !!! What the hell?
Hi, I’m not sure if you know or not but will it record my ps4 party chat audio sorry if it’s a dumb question thanks!
On Xbox you are able to allow party chat to come through the speakers.. so it will effectively be recorded via the HDMI as game sound. I'm just wondering as to how I'll be able to capture my own voice aswell as speak in party
As ever an awesome video Adam 😁.
this thing is like $79 dollars now, that's probably what the price should've been,
but despite the usb2.0 part, it's not too far behind the elgato hd60 s.
that capture card is usb3, and it only outputs up to 1080p 30.
people claim it can do 1080p 60, but not in my experience and i used the card for a bit.
the hd60 s plus can do 1080p 60, but the hd60 s in my experience can only handle up to
1080p 30. so the Avermedia Live Gamer Mini is not a bad choice,
but the latency is better on the Elgato, and that's thanks to the usb3 connecting.
however there both only good up to 1080p 30, but the Elgato can handle it better.
Adam, thank you for this video , does this capture card support PS4 Pro?
Mine flashing blue what it mean will it just update by it self or will I have to do it manually
I use my avermedia live portable 2 plus or whatever with ffmpeg to grab the hardware encoded stream in h264 without affecting cpu. Its not great but its good enough for gaming (limited colors). Bitrate at 1080p60 is about 20 Mbit/s but its bot very efficient.
I wish obs on linux supported h264 capture cards.
So if I want the best quality settings using this capture card I've to select the StreamEngine option?.
does this capture card only do 20mbs? My old live gamer portable could do 60mbs. i just got this thinking it was going to be an upgrade but the lower image quality really bums me out
I'm getting this as a late birthday gift on Augest.
Hello. Thank you for your good information. I want to use this capture card for my obs and video recording and not for gaming. Is it suitable or is it just for playing?
@EposVox i have the avermedia mini and i have no issue with it . No lag and runs real time . I have gaming laptops with all of them having 8gb 1070 graphic cards 16gigs of ram . No hicups and i goto other websites to stream with it and still have great frames.
It can't run real-time. No capture card runs real-time.
EposVox it did on younow and bigo maybe half a sec delay but on those apps it ran fast vs youtubes 5-10 sec delay .
I am not new to streaming. I have used up the only mini pcie slot on my computer and need a USB 2.0 capture card since its the only USB type on my computer.
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Hi can you pleeeeaaaaseeeeee answer this for me! Can you record friends party chat audio on ps4? If so can u please make a clip even if it’s unlisted and send it to me please I’m really considering this card. Thanks!
once you have your ps4 plugged into the card with hdmi, you gotta set the chat audio output device to hdmi in the settings. i haven't tried it with this particular card but it should work the same as any other.
Any idea for no sound issue for this avermedia
Nice review there
, But can we use it on Mobile Phone??
I was looking for a capture card to use with OBS and my switch, i want usb 2 because for some reason my usb 3 doesn't seem to recognise. How much lag am i going to get between the game and the stream? I could also do display capture and just play the game from the main screen.
Great video! Will you be reviewing the new Razer Ripsaw HD? I really want to know if can use USB C to USB C for better performance!
Yeah I just got it in. Can tell you now USB C won't make a difference since the card (as with all capture cards thus far) is still only USB 3.1 Gen 1, not Gen 2 - and frequently the drivers don't want to cooperate on direct USB C to C
@@EposVox Thanks for the reply, bummer to know, but looking forward to hearing about it in the future!
@@EposVox Also heard that OBS latency is really good on it.
Hi im a newbie to gaming and have got twitch and streamlabs etc. right now im using remote play to streamlabs and looking to buy this card so i can ditch remote play.
can i use my streamlabs overlays/webcam/mic etc on this as i dont want to over complicate matters.
Interesting device... For my setup I have a BlackMagic Intensity Pro 4k for my HD consoles (PS3/PS4/Switch) and it works great for recording on my Hackintosh on macOS 10.14 Mojave, but if I wanna stream I reboot to Win10, and there I can do anything with no problems or bottlenecks. While I'm on Windows there I also have a Razer Ripsaw that I use for my analog consoles (Japanese SNES aka Super Famicom/PS1/PS2, all connected via HD Retrovision component cables to a component switch box) that's connected to a RetroTink2x (love that thing). I'd connect my RetroTink cluster of devices to my IP4k, but the refresh rate/sync rate for the SFC is juuuust off enough to make footage useless. My Razer Ripsaw seems to like it, so that's why I have it all separated.
Anyway, great video. I'm a fellow nerd, so that's why I decided to share my setup here.
I love your videos man
Thanks!!
Awesome video! However, I'm stuck with one piece of info - and sorry if I missed it. I get that it captures at 1080 60fps, but what's the highest res you can stream live to twitch with it? :)
1080p 60fps
Whatever res something can capture you can also stream. Those are not separate specifications
tengo un problema aver si me puedes ayudar cuando pongo live gamer mini me va perfecto pero no se me escucha el audio del juego , pero cuando pongo live gamer mini stream engine -1 me sale este error / the device is occupied by idle(0). please close the conflicting porfavor nesesito tu ayuda !!
Ndi plugin had a major update in version 4.6. Are you planning to test it?
I see no reason for a capture card in dual PC setups in my use cases.
@JaydenFX True for quality, if you have spare money get one, but when you are streaming FPS games at 6mb/s ndi is good enough.
Great insights! Do you think this is worthwhile in 2022 now? Or I should go with BU110.
The price for GC311 is around 73 USD from where I’m at now.
The BU110 is at 101 USD.
Basically will be using it to stream Switch, PS4 Pro and maybe PS5 in the future. What do you think?
This wasn’t worthwhile when it was released, sure as hell isn’t now.
Get the BU110
but will the video lag or just the previev or can you use 30 fps in obs and can that fix it? i have a amd r7 240 2gb shit card i know
Thanks for the review. This may be a stupid question, but would this capture card work for camera capture with an Asus Vivobook F510ua? (For reference that is a laptop with an Intel 8th Gen I5-8250U, Intel UHD Graphic 620, and it would be upgraded to have 16gb of RAM and an SSD.) I would like to stream 1080p 24fps, but 720p would be fine I guess. Would those specs be enough, or would I need a real graphics card?
If not, would one of the USB 3.0 capture cards that you mentioned work? Like the one that can record by itself? Or would they run better?,
Is the camlink still your top choice for capturing a DSLR for facecam?
I am live streaming my best friends graduation using our two Canon t6i cameras and the last thing I need before I'm ready is capture cards
It's a handy choice yeah. I use the BlackMagic DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K for my main cam, but Cam Links for everything else.
Is the max bitrate the standard 60 Mbps for AVerMedia cards or can it use up to 76 Mbps like the Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus?
Can you get game sound and commentary through the PS4 when streaming?
Since this was posted April 2019, I'm not sure if I'll be getting any much answer from this but I'm just gonna try. I'd like to get a capture card but I'm having second thoughts on getting which one. Either this or the Live Gamer Extreme 2. I have the budget for both but I'd save a lot if I buy this one and since I'm a youtuber beginner and mostly gonna use this to capture my gameplay on my PS4, I'm not looking for anything too high end. The price difference between the two is around USD 61.60.
i have a i5 4570 16gb ram no gpu can i stream my ps4 to stream labs without the software. would this have a big cpu impact.
this is the ONLY thing that is NOT SOLD OUT.... would this work to stream my Sony A6100?
Hey i need help with the stream engine
I use it to record unedited footage and the quality is not good at all
Please
Uhhhh up your bit rate
I was looking to buy this one but now I dont know if this supports hdcp bypass to a nintendo switch :/
Does OBS on Mac recognize it if added as a video capture device?
Because I'm having that problem on my Elgato HD60. I'm looking for a capture device that I can get the video feed for Mac. Thanks!
The Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus is fine, as long as you don't have too busy gameplay. For example racing games. If you try to record in PC-Free mode then you end up with a pixelated mess as you do not have an option to choose high enough bitrate to make the video not look like shit.
If you connected to a PC to use it with the Windows software, then you can pick bitrate, but in that case the device isn't working in PC free mode.
@eposvox i love the content! I have a request. Can you make a video testing the hdmi passthrough of capture cards to see if its compatible with freesync/gsync?
It doesn't work, period.
Also actual GSync (vs GSync compatible) is still DP only
@@EposVox wow. Thanks for the info
can you use this to duel pc stream?
So I assume my G4400/750ti is out of the picture? Can't handle recording/or streamingwith those specs?
Had a chance to check out the Razer Ripsaw HD yet?
I'm concerned that the 4k pass through on any capture device (USB) won't output to display port...which is needed for 4k gsync.
Any thoughts?
One just shipped to me, so not yet, but soon.
But of course not - Capture cards don't support variable refresh rates whatsoever, and GSync specifically not only requires DisplayPort but requires specifically a GSync dedicated module (hence why GSync monitors are more expensive than non-GSync). It's not an option, period.
I've also been told by my Elgato contacts many times that the cost of DisplayPort is not at all worth the niche market that would use it and that such a capture card is just not going to happen.
There are a couple DisplayPort capture cards - mainly from Datapath - but they are multiple thousands of dollars and still don't support adaptive sync.
@@EposVox is it possible to HDMI out to a capture card and Display port out (with gsync) to a gsync monitor? ...is the real question
@@MrSilencerbob Nope
Looking for a capture card to use with my Retrotink2xpro. Anyone have any suggestions? and preferably a capture card under $100.
Is there any capture card that is good for single set up PC. I mean it like it will take over all encoding of the video and send it to the TWITCH or RUclips.
Nope, that's not what capture cards are for.
not that I know off. surprised though because avermedia live gamer portable 2 capture card itself does the work but then when you go back to the same pc it acts as if the pc is doing the work. that said though, if you want to do youtube videos and only have 1 pc. I do recommend the avermedia live gamer protable 2. you would also need to get nice sd card like 64 gig. you can then record into the capture card onto the sd card. no hit on your gaming session and then later on, access the sd card and upload the video.
Does it work with only 1 laptop? like record game on the laptop.
I recently bought it for using my ps4 with it, will it work just fine or I could do a smarter thing than buying that prodcut? I'm totally fine with 1080p 60FPS recording but I would like to know if it really was worth my 100$... I have RTX 2080 and Intel Core i7 8700
how do you feel about this card as a capture card for a 1080p camera? just curious about the comparison for that to gameplay footage
The latency makes that a no go
That setup is 🔥🔥
Haha thanks!
would a laptop with graphics card be need for this
Can this capture card support capturing the gaming PC and also how to setup capturing audio of gaming PC?
Have u option in streamlabs obs Audio capture device and select Avermedia.
could anyone help me set this up? in terms of what I need and is my monitor i use compatible?
I'm kind of confused, as my pc with intelHD620 and i5whateverU processor isn't above the recommended spec, but can run software encoding in 720p30fps in OBS quite decently. Does this mean I'm worse off using this card than just using a software encoder?
Depends, keep in mind that a hardware encoder on the capture card has a very rigid limited use case - compositing must happen somewhere before that. It must receive already the footage that you want encoded on its HDMI input. So it entirely depends on what you actually intend to do.
You already have a dedicated hardware encoder in your laptop computer, Intel QuickSync, capable of 4K60 H264 encoding. It's part of Intel HD 620/630 iGPU block of the CPU package, but probably doesn't actually share any functional units or fight for resources with the GPU, so it's much more universally useful. Perceptual image quality at a given bitrate on Intel QuickSync varies but should more or less hover around the Fast preset of x264, but at nearly zero CPU utilisation.
Would you recommend this for under $100??
does this work with ryzen 5 + gtx 1060 for gaming & ryzen 3 + gtx 1050ti dual pc setup for streaming ??
sorry, noob question, but can it also stream mobile games like COD and Mobile Legends?
What light are you using?
can this be used with a Mac?
AVerMedia - Live Gamer MINI seems interesting, but exclusive on Bestbuy..... its a fail. Hope at some point either Avermedia, ElGato or Magewell make a DP capture card with passthrough, really would useful for a nvidia surround setup.
I've sadly been told time and time again that the cost of DP is too prohibitive and Elgato at least just won't do it, period.
@@EposVox =(. I can understand that HDMI has a bigger market with Consoles, Cameras and PC, while Display Port is a PC standard only. That said, i do think it would amazing if you didnt have to duplicate/clone on windows, specially for a surround setup (triple monitor) or even a streamer that its using a 144hz display with gsync that needs Display port as its connection for it to work, so we have the video card industry pushing the display port standard as the main interconnect, but we have the capture card industry not supporting it... i would love to abandon Display port and move toward HDMI only for everything, but don't seem to be the case, even more we get 3xDP and 1xHDMI on most video cards.
Hope at least Datapath revises their dual Display port capture card to modify one to be a out/passthrough that can pass Gsync, i honestly would pay $2k for it, since all the other manufactures don't seem to be willing to do an affordable card, and probably never will. The other route is if for some reason someone manages to invent a Display port duplicator/switch that actually works. And the last would be for Nvidia and AMD to abandon Displayport and support Gsync/freesync thorugh HDMI and have HDMI monitors that can do high refresh rates.
what's the input lag like when playing through a game through OBS ?
Latency is covered
Does anyone know if there's a difference if I just want to record for RUclips vs streaming it? I only have a laptop with i5 processing, but I don't have any desire to stream.
Alternatively is there a way I could capture gameplay footage on a switch with the processing power I have?
Yes, I bought today. the main thing is that there is an hdmi that goes to the device.
What would you recommend for an absolute low-end laptop with no dedicated graphics card?
Having issues with slow storage affecting video quality
good job, but i'm a streamer and i want listen the audio of my console without use a second headset, i can listen my game without problem o i can't use this product? thanks and this product have a problem, can you link me a game capture without big latency? i believe that my English is OK, i'm not a monster in linguages
Is devices can reduce computer work when live stream?
My Spec desktop old, AMD athlom X4 860k tak 8gb GPU RX 5502gb, if i stream game in my desktop used avermedia can run?help me sir thank alot
Work on ps3? Answer please
I have a early 2015 MacBook Pro. 3.1Ghz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 Memory 16GB 1867MHz DDR3. Will this capture card work or what other game capture devices will work with my current laptop?
Hii, Can i use My laptop which contains i5-8250U , 8GB ram and MX150 4GB graphics for 1080p 60fps ?
Thanks in advance!!
Today i used it with a i7 8565u , 16 GB of RAm , a mx150 at 1080p60fps in the "optimal" mode. Was great, indeed the only mode in wich the encoder activates is in this mode
Awesome video, naturally I stayed until the end because I'm a huge nerd haha. But yeah, I feel like this could have been a significantly better product if they had spent more time on it, using USB 3 and adding some more features would have been nice. Cutting the price down could have been really beneficial as well. It's 2019, so USB 3 I feel like wouldn't add that much to the cost.
well I like that its usb 2. it means it can still be used with a usb 3 port. I use both ports and it works just fine with either.
@@dannamanna99 it's more about the bandwidth than what port it uses, I could care less what specification something is, but more bandwidth would allow for many improvements.
vgturtle127 yeah I get that. Just if it needed usb 3 if it would make it not work then with usb 2.
@@dannamanna99 They are supposed to be universally compatible but yeah I know what you mean
@@DerekTurtleRoedepends I guess. I think you can go up but not always down. so a device that uses 2.0 can be used on a 3.0 but if something needs the 3.0 it wont always work with 2.0 then. but I am not a computer tech.
Will it work with Ryzen7 2700U + RadeonRX560X + 12GB RAM ???
It honestly disappoints me that everyone is dropping analog video output which means people have to use upscalers now for even stuff with component cables, do you have a recommendation for a capture card that can do both HDMI and AV? It seems like they’re all being phased out now.
we can provide you both HDMI and AV Video input capture card. from brand ezcap
Will it work on ps4
C'mon why isn't this video at 100k views yet
It released like 20 minutes ago lol
Yes, but the sheer quality of your videos deserves 100k views in such a short period of time :)