Recording android content in high quality

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Hi, not quite sure which forum to post this in, if there's somewhere more relevant than this then please let me know.

I'm looking to record video footage from my Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablet. I've rooted it and tried SCR Screen recorder which is a great bit of software. Unfortunately the performance hit is a bit too hard for the game I want to record, Golfstar. The problem is to play the game you need to to hit a little white line with a moving bar with accuracy and the line becomes jerky when this software is running, no matter what bitrate I am recording. It's just not possible.

So I've been looking into hardware solutions, but I'm running into 2 main problems:

1 - The HDMI output from this tablet appears to always have HDCP enabled, and there's no way to turn it off. There's no hardware I can find that will record HDCP protected content, for obvious reasons.

2 - The high resolution of the tablet (2560 x 1600) isn't supported by any hardware I can find for a decent price.

I've read that certain HDMI splitters will strip the HDCP protection from the stream, I won't be breaking any copyright with what I'm recording so this would be fine, however I'm not sure something like an Elgato game capture HD would be able to deal with the 2650 x 1600 output from my tablet.

I'm beginning to realise why there's not so much Android gaming footage out there!

Is there a good quality and reliable solution out there which won't affect gaming performance?
 
Could you perhaps install something like bluestacks onto your PC, then play and capture it using a PC software solution?
 
I did try that, but couldn't get the game to play, was a while back though, think its worth pursuing?

*edit* What about this http://www.andyroid.net/ ? Looks to have better OpenGL and ARM support. Anyone tried it?
 
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I'm waiting for Console OS to be released as it would seem fuller featured than the other options but since you don't really need it for the OS as a whole, but rather just a mechanism to use an app inside Windows, then Andy I would say is worth a shot. It looks good that it has mobile as a controller supported too so in some games that rely on the touch interface that could avoid a pitfall that might exist with bluestack or similar unless the app supported a game pad of some sort.

This has a comparison to some of the other Android on a PC solutions, although it may be somewhat bias towards itself or out of date in some respects to its comparisons to the others that it makes.

http://consoleos.com/
 
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Well I tried Andydroid yesterday and it is absolutely superb, as fast and responsive as playing on my tablet. FRAPS recording at 60FPS doesnt seem to affect it at all, just need a big drive to record the RAW files to. Mobile as controller is laggy so no good for fast response games but that doesnt matter to me, mouse is fine.

Great shout mate, thanks :)
 
No worries, glad it worked out. So what is your Twitch or YouTube that you're going to be broadcasting this to?
 
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