If you have an Nvidia card, it might be worth it to wait for their upcoming software "ShadowPlay". It's going to let anyone with a 6-series card or higher record video of gameplay with next to no performance hit (something like 2-5%). The built in video encoder on the cards does all the work.
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hdmi do sound. this is meant for console recording to pc hdd or whatever has hdmi and a/v cable connections, and its also doesnt do hdmi for ps3 due to ps3 hdcp compliant. the input/output is for passthrough so you can play on a separate display plug into the output without lag since viewing it on your pc will delay nearly a second.
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oooooo, thanks for that info. But to be sure I'm not gonna use passthrough as I'm worried that it has a small minute delay on it. Even has 5ms delay will impact some of the games I'll play that's why I'm looking to use the mirror mode on my video card, but unsure if It will decrease some if its performance or not since It's just technically passing the data stream in 2 channels
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For the first, all you need is a good cable. The connection can transfer sound and video. No you don't need one to make it work.
Idk since I've never used it.
As long as your card is able to transfer video to both, you're good.
Generally, no.
No, since the Elgato device is the one recording. You don't even need the second PC.
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I don't use my HDMI to transfer audio though, so I'm worried about that. I use my usb headset for my sound so I was thinking maybe audioprepeater is needed.
actually you need a 2nd PC for elgato, I think you're mistaking elgato as a PVR instead.
Anyways thanks for the info, never actually used mirroring myself
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As long as your card is designed by Nvidia, there would be drivers for HDMI sound. You can connect the headset direct to your computer as per normal. Thus, the repeater is not needed.
I'm not mistaking it. You might as well save on the power bill and just use Elgato with your own PC, since most games don't need to read/write most of the time.
Anyway, you are welcome. Never used it on my own computer since I didn't have to, but I have used it with at least 1 set-up.
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I'm using amd so :(
oh you're right, you can pass the usb back, I guess I overlook on that one. Still I'm going to try if hooking elgato to only 1 PC will impact some performance, just doing the 2nd pc setup for elgato so I can be sure that recording pc gameplay have absolutely zero performance loss (except maybe on mirroring)
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I'm planning to get one, any comments on how it works with PC recording.
I'm worried about some things like:
How can you pass the audio through hdmi? do you need audiorepeater to make it work?
What's the average size of the output video? MB/min?
Can you mirror the video output? DVI to my monitor and HDMI to elgato going to the 2nd PC?
Will mirroring affect performance?
Will the video quality depends on the performance of the 2nd PC?
It's a special order so I still have 1 week before I can cancel and get the device itself
Hopefully someone has experience using elgato and can answer this questions, thanks!
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