HD Capturing?

Ksanti

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Does anyone know of any way I could connect my Xbox to my pc and then run it through the monitor while in Windows? I want to be able to capture the screen in HD but don't want to buy an HD capture card or breakout box due to the cost. My pc would be perfectly capable of recording the image like say via fraps, but is there any solution that doesn't cause lag in picture i.e. so I can play on my pc's monitor and record simultaneously/connect my pc to my tv and run windows on that?

If not, are there any component to USB recording solutions?

I know about the Blackmagic cards but they're too expensive for me :(

Matt
 
When it comes to HD capture, they are all expensive,

Really for £130 the Black magic Intensity Pro is the one most people use and it does have HDMI in/out, so you could record it on your PC, whilst playing the game directly on your TV..

I've looked into it myself, and Hauppauge do a USB HD DVR, but I can't see if it allows live viewing and/or if it lags..

[edit] the Hauppauge USBHD DVR does Component pass-through, so you can at least directly play the game with no lag, and record to your PC, but it's more expensive then the intensity Pro..
 
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So is there no way to connect an xbox to a pc (via usb or similar) and then run a program to show it in full screen?
 
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Without Buying either something like the Black Magic Intensity Pro, or the Hauppauge HD DVR, No.

Both should allow 'preview' modes to show the video fullscreen, but I would say that 'lag' is probably inevitable.. you could ask on the respective forums, I'm sure owners will tell you how they perform.

But, both cost well over £100..

What is it that you are trying to do? record yourself playing, capture screenshots or just play the console on your monitor?
 
Record playing.

If I run the game in HD on my TV and have an S-video cable plugged in as well would it run through both? Recording in less than HD isn't a massive problem as long as the playing is in HD, and the video only goes through both cables when running SD?
 
Ok I've sorta given up on recording in HD, but I'm trying to find a way to play in HD and record in SD?

My Xbox runs through component video, and if you're playing in HD the Yellow Composite cable does nothing, I was wondering if there's any way to get the component video split into two component videos, then use an adapter to swap that component into either S-Video or Yellow Composite Video (the inputs my current capture card supports)?

This is proving to be a lot harder than I first expected lol
 
At the cheaper end of the scale you really have to play in SD then you can capture with something around £20 like the Kworld Professional DVD Maker USB 2.0 + some splitters.
 
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