Chroma key green nail polish and freak everyone out during B-roll with weird effects lol. Anyways, yeah...an interesting product. I'm hoping they release a version with multiple hdmi inputs.
Advance pass through is actually super convenient. I stream from a set up where I also play from. Some days I'm not streaming and I have the day off I'd like to play something but don't want to switch HDMI cables to play in 4k HDR. Its not a super selling point but it totally makes sense to me.
Hey so I was wondering. If you plug in your headset to the capture card it must record your voice then right? What if I wanted to use an external mic that I have instead to record my voice? I still want to be able to record the Xbox live party chat I’m in with my friends and be able to talk to them. But I want to be able to use my nice actual mic rather than my headset for the recording.
This is where I’m at.. I’m a bit frustrated at this. I’m curious if you found a work around. I had great audio and mic but with my wireless headset on I couldn’t talk in party chat... I was hooked up from my controller to the controller port and nothing in the head set port and had a mic hooked up to the pc with my wireless head set/mic for console. I set it up to play through both speakers and head set (party chat) but nothing was playing through to the stream. Just my audio from my pc mic and game volume. As soon as I unplug my controller port on the capture card I lose stream game volume but I’m able to talk to party chat... I hook up all the wires like it recommends. It all work but all volumes are at half. With the capture card maxed out.
I'm thorned between the XR1 Pro or the Tuf CU4K40. Since i'm not going to play higher than 60 fps and 4K isn't necessary, what would your recommend? Any other great options for minimum 2k resolution?
Wow, this was incredibly helpful video and answered just about all the questions I had about the XR1, and you covered retro gaming too?!? Thanks a ton!
@EposVox, did you happen to test if you could run this 'headless'? ie, device plugged into input, NOT plugged into output? I'm wanting to just capture the HDMI from another computer to use it as basically Picture-in-picture.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understand the Advanced Passthrough mode correctly it does have one use case: Watching HDR content on consoles. Since the card doesn't support HDR in normal passthrough mode you would have to unplug and rewire your console every time you wanted to watch a movie in HDR, and then back when you wanted to game. With this feature you can just turn off the capture, making it support HDR passthrough, and turn it back on when gaming. That is still a *very* narrow use case though because I would imagine if people have an HDR capable display, they'd also want to game in HDR. But some people might not care about HDR Gaming, only HDR Movies.
@@EposVox Definitely, yes, especially in this point in time where even the consoles are focusing on HDR more or less. And I don't understand what is so difficult about that either. From a logical standpoint it should just be routing a signal from A to B and the chip inside shouldn't even interfere with that. But then again I don't know how these devices work internally so who knows why that's not easily possible...
How is your mic audio coming through so clear over game audio? Have it connected to my Playstation 5 into my PC. Console game audio is fine in OBS. Without game audio, my mic sounds fine. Once game audio is going though, my mic is completely drained out. Can hardly hear myself. The volume level for mic input on the XR1 is completely maxed out too.
Glad I watched this! The $109 Elite flash sale price coming up for this box looks really tempting. But I'm not a console gamer, so I don't want this going into the "Bought / Didn't Use" bin. Plus your last point about the port/cable management is the first thing I noticed about this thing-terrible. Anyway, thanks for reviewing this.
Hi, I'm using earbuds with the EVGA xr1 pro, but the audio is too loud and there is no way to adjust it on the earbuds or through the capture card. Is there a fix? Also, what's the headphone jack to headphone jack that came with the capture card for? thanks
So when my PS5 arrives, I can play 4K/60+ & capture via OBS @ 1080/60 w/ audio to twitch? But if I already have a Avermedia Live Gamer Portable 2 plus.. any benefit to using this EVGA one vs the Avermedia? I use GOXLR as my interface tho... wondering what snags I will run into.
Fsr I just can't get any audio to obs. (Btw I'm using a secondary PC for recording my main PC.) I followed the steps but it just will not work. Do u have any suggestions or advice for what to do?
None of that matters if you're using with a console and if you're gaming on a PC you literally have NO reason to need a capture card. People say to offload the work to another computer but that's just stupid. If you have a decent computer, it can handle it all without issue and you can still game. So yeah, using a capture card for playing PC games is idiotic unless you have an older system. And if you have an older system that can't handle streaming and gaming, then you're DEFINITELY not getting 120 FPS at 1440p anyway.
"you're comfortable normally playing in 1440p 120hz and then playing in 1080p60 when you stream" Honestly this sounds like something a lot of people would like. Not everyone is going to stream everything they do, and being able to have better resolution and refresh rate off-stream without futzing with cables is definitely a value-add. For desktop-style capture equipment like this, a bypass button like this should be standard for exactly the kind of situation you described.
@@EposVox Can you cite some examples? As your video says, you've reviewed a lot of cards, so I doubt I'd find the relevant ones just by watching random reviews. Currently, the XR1 is on sale in a price bracket that seemed rather empty when I was going through the recommendations of other reviewers today (USD125), and some companies do a sale so frequently that it's more accurate to judge by sale price than full price. 1440 to 1080 is an awkward scaling, so my intuition would have been that a model without like the XR1 would be less expensive than competitors with.
I'm having a weird problem where regardless of PS4 settings my EVGA XR1 has a green hint in the preview. OBS is on NV12 (default) and changing it around doesn't really get rid of the hue.
Will this think capture the BIOS? My Elgato HD60 Pro PCIe card doesn't seem to do it, or I am doing something wrong. I only use the provided apps that came with it. But it doesn't seem to kick in the capture card until windows boots to the desktop. I find it odd it doesn't capture the BIOS as it is sending the signal to the capture card.
Great video mate btw. I’ve got the xr1 and an Xbox series x but I don’t understand how to get the party chat to come through on twitch … I have Astro A50 headset, where do I have to connect the jack to? I’m a real noob with all of this, please help 🤦♂️😂
I need help with this. How do the aux ports work? Even when I connect my PS5 controller to one aux port and my PS5 headset to the other, I can't get the game audio to passthrough and the mic on my headset doesn't work.
I just bought it and I'm so stuck with this. Did you find a solution? I'm using Arctis Wireless Pro. Controller plugged into thhe controller input on XR1. Headset plugged into the mic / line connection on XR1. I can get sound through my headset and into OBS, but no mic for party chat. If I change any settings, I get mic input but no OBS stream sound.
I love my Ripsaw HD and really like my Can't Link. The audio section on the Ripsaw is kind of anemic and the Can't Link lies about its USB connection and fps at 1080p. I probably would like this card for its audio performance.
Im extremely confused about the advanced passthrough thing. On youtube you can livestream up to 4k, wouldnt you be able to hook this up as a second “monitor” on your streaming PC and stream a full res copy of your gaming pc?
16:35 they are calling it passthrough but it's really called "Bypass" but could be called by-passthrough, because the signal is passing through the unit, but not the hardware. Should have been called Bypass...
Quick question just ordered this for my switch and have a 2022 msi gaming laptop with a 3070ti would i still need to plug in both usb plugs or just one?
Totally agree that this is for consoles. So many of the "negatives" are going to be awesome for capturing footage for my Steam Deck that's on it's way. :D
I use a separate cable for my microphone and don't have a combo headset... Has anyone figured out how the heck you're supposed to setup your mic audio? I got my headphones/speakers working just fine with it. I'm lost at this step :/
i feel like everytime i find myself on an epos vox video since way back in the 'how to save your blu ray library' days, im constantly reminded of just how freaking cool of a person you are lol like shit look at that wavebird, and those nails and the neon. cmon leave some cool for the rest of us lol
I know you said that you wouldn't recommend this for pc streaming but it's currently 200$ CAD with free shipping would this be worth getting for a dual pc streaming setup over the Elgato HD60+ currently priced at 300$ CAD?
I am a noob to streaming who is helping someone with a streaming build. He uses a webcam while streaming and currently records on his main drive. How would this product help in his streaming system?
Can't you have one hdmi cable running from your desktop to this capture card and then another from your desktop to your gaming monitor to get 144hz and still capture the game you are playing
This is not so great, even if you use it for what it can do. 4K->1080p downscale recording looks horrible. It looks like they scaled down to 480p and then upscale back to 1080p; so much noise. It looks fine on 1080p input recording at 1080p; forget it if you have 4k input though. Even worse, the mic input somehow drains the volume, even maxed out on the XR1, turn up gain on my powered mic to max, the audio volume that comes out in OBS is so low I have to add more gain in post.
Got one of these as a free bonus when I bought my new Gaming PC (from NewEgg). I have yet to use it- but this seems like it wouldn't be the best for PC... But what are your thoughts on using this to stream Mobile Games (Android)
Thank You for getting that card to work. Watched HarrisHeller trying to get it to work and like you said the instruction were not clear on how that card worked.. I liked the way you broke the card down.. ThANKS mAN..
17:00 min mark, you know what i actually would love to have that feature , sorry to desagree with you on this but it is a very convenient feature to just press that button or turn it off, whatever you want call it, so automatically I can use my 1440p monitor at it's fullest. I think is pretty convenient and very smart on their end that they did that. Is not fair at all to say that any other company could have done that, because guess what,they didn't,and still charge top dollar for the capture card,like the $200 i paid for Elgato HD60 Pro. this is on sale at best buy right now for $129.99 ,you can't go wrong with this capture card at that price based in your detailed reviews. So i desagree with you on this point but thank you for helping me make the decision of buying it,oh also because it will allow me to play at 4k,60fps and record at 1080p for those random days when I want to upload a video
This capture card is a dumpster fire. How do you build a capture card you know runs hot without venting it? I have to manually cool the card down to make it work and be stable.
i am checking amazon but the reviews are making me not want to spend the money, people are saying the quality is very bad but i think people using usb 2.0 ports
aww yes, I was just thinking about this card, and whether I should get this or the avermedia because I want a USB one, then there is my EposVox video just sitting there waiting on the same day. Edit: wait, they are marketing it towards PC to other PC capture? If I just want to capture my nintendo switch to OBS in 1080p and have it passthrough to my 1440p monitor it should be fine though? They are advertising that a 1440p source can be downgraded to 1080p record and output natively/4K, and this is the false part? Sorry I have done no research into this device apart from this video, and I was trying to decide between this and the avermedia live gamer usb models to just capture some animal crossing haha.
Okay, this is the video I needed. Thank you so much for making this, as I was super stoked originally to get it, but the one feature I was really going for, I'm going to have to go with another capture card because if it cannot passthrough more than 60hz and still capture, yeah I can't go with it.
got this card for a friend. it wont even get detected properly - doesnt show up as another monitor and only as an audio device. tried updating bios as well
@@EposVox yea my bad. Idk what I was thinking. It give that usb bug error about needing to plug in 3.0 and 2.0 and obs doesn't detect it as a video device
"No point buying a capture card for a single pc set up" I'm new to this and trying to get my head around things. Is there a video anyone can point me to where this is explained?
Just search in the videos of this channel about Nvenc Also i think that the encoder in AMD videocards got an update and it's way better that what is shown in the videos, thats if u have a AMD videocard
So I do have an older video about it but honestly it's not very good and needs re-done. The gist is that it performs worse than software game capture and doesn't provide any benefits
Thanks for the replies! I'm waiting to pull the trigger on a 3080 (when they're back in stock - maybe 2021 lol). I've edited out the question I had because I'm gonna stop being lazy and watch the damn videos
Honestly this could be a good product for people with lower end PC's. Not everybody has a Beefy PC and a high end monitor. If u have a low end pc and say a laptop to stream with and record with this is pretty good. Like an entry level capture card. For heavy streamers with high end PC's and monitors then yes I agree with you. but thats not all PC streamers.
This is literally no better for those with lower-end PCs than any other capture card I’ve reviewed, and there are a couple others that are cheaper and much better suited for those users. But nothing inherent to this card requires lower specs than the USB offerings from the likes of Elgato or AVerMedia
@@EposVox wow thanks for replying. fair enough tho. I’m pretty new to streaming tech tbh so you probably know better than me. I’m trying to figure out my set up right now. I was just comparing the price to the cheapest options from elgato in which case it seemed good. I didn’t realize there were other options for cheaper. I only just found ur channel and subscribed, so I haven’t seen those reviews but I will check them out, cuz I’m looking for a solution to a frustrating situation. If u have the time Id like to know what you think I should do.
@@EposVox I made a Reddit post looking for a solution if you wanna check it out. www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/comments/k4m8ot/help_options_for_recording_pc_gamplay_to_mac/?
@@EposVox CPU: Ryzen 3600x GPU: RTX 2060 RAM: 16gb Dual Channel 3200mhz MB: MSI Gaming Pro Carbon Max Wifi PSU: Corsair RM650 Modular SSD: WD Black 500gb M.2 NVME Case: Corsair icue 220t Tempered Glass The issue I'm trying to solve is that I have a macbook pro that I use for sound design and music production (I'm an audio engineer) and I was hoping to find a way to Record and stream using my mac so my PC can just focus on gaming. I also have a PS4 that I want to record and stream sometimes as well. The only issue I came across is I can't find any capture cards that are compatible with mac that can also pass through more than 60hz. So I'm starting to think that I just have to settle for 60fps while I'm recording or streaming. But whats your take? Is there any options for even 120hz pass through with a mac? Thanks for your reply again! PS. I know I'm gonna need more space for recording. I only just built this PC. I do have 2 8TB and I'm going to use one of them for the time being but I have to do a bunch of file transferring and formatting first.
About the nails kids - Epos has been doing this for a bit, and he's NOT the first. I find it distracting, but seeing a guy with nail polish shouldn't alter your world... For the most part, I feel like YTers use it to promote comments (it works), but we've seen ACTORS do it... It's been done by guys in the NFL and the NBA...skaters have done it...and of course a number of MUSICIANS have worked the media with this trick.
Can somebody list of ALL exact resolution (not Xp, but actual resolution), modes (p/i), and exact refresh rates it support when capturing? Does it only work with 16:9 input and output? What about 16:10, 4:3, 5:4, 3:2, 1:1, etc? What about interlaced video streams? Uncommon, but does happen. What about 1280×720 60 fps or 1280 x 960 60 fps streams? It is impossible to find details in specs exactly. Lets say I connect it to 1920x1920 60Hz monitor, can it be captured, what will be capture resolution? Probably not 1920x1920 60Hz, as the max this card can do is 1920x1080 60Hz, which is clearly less pixels. Can I do something like maybe 1400x1400 60Hz, which is close in pixel count? Also is it possible to use it without a monitor connected on the output?
I forgot to mention but did test 1080i, worked fine, and I noted 480i as well. What possible use do you have for 1:1 capture? Yes you can use it without the output connected
@@EposVox Why not. My monitor is 1:1 aspect ratio, and a lot of games play better in this aspect ratio. Granted some don't work, but a lot of RPGs, isometric games, building, strategy games, do work really. I use it for work and gaming. Love it.
I refunded their latest version. I hate OBS and it's practically unusable without it; i.e. would only support max 720p using hdmi to capture pc. Even myold Avermedia Portable 2 Plus supports more recording options that work.
I find it weird that UA-cam also displayed 1440p as 2K a little while back if I remember correctly. Somebody's lying to us in tech history.
Chroma key green nail polish and freak everyone out during B-roll with weird effects lol. Anyways, yeah...an interesting product. I'm hoping they release a version with multiple hdmi inputs.
THANK YOU for correcting "2K" resolution! :)
Advance pass through is actually super convenient. I stream from a set up where I also play from. Some days I'm not streaming and I have the day off I'd like to play something but don't want to switch HDMI cables to play in 4k HDR. Its not a super selling point but it totally makes sense to me.
But when there was already multiple actual HDR Passthrough cards on the market from elgato and AVerMedia, it can't help but feel like a downgrade
Hey so I was wondering. If you plug in your headset to the capture card it must record your voice then right? What if I wanted to use an external mic that I have instead to record my voice? I still want to be able to record the Xbox live party chat I’m in with my friends and be able to talk to them. But I want to be able to use my nice actual mic rather than my headset for the recording.
This is where I’m at.. I’m a bit frustrated at this. I’m curious if you found a work around. I had great audio and mic but with my wireless headset on I couldn’t talk in party chat... I was hooked up from my controller to the controller port and nothing in the head set port and had a mic hooked up to the pc with my wireless head set/mic for console. I set it up to play through both speakers and head set (party chat) but nothing was playing through to the stream. Just my audio from my pc mic and game volume. As soon as I unplug my controller port on the capture card I lose stream game volume but I’m able to talk to party chat... I hook up all the wires like it recommends. It all work but all volumes are at half. With the capture card maxed out.
@@mxhollywood949 I ended up buying an Elgato hd60 instead. It was just easier for me to do that then test out this capture card.
As a PC gamer, I thank you for stopping me in pulling the trigger on this card. You saved me the time in troubleshooting.
Honestly any video going over Retro capture and OBS is a welcome thing so if you do more of that then I'll look forward to it :)
I'm thorned between the XR1 Pro or the Tuf CU4K40.
Since i'm not going to play higher than 60 fps and 4K isn't necessary, what would your recommend? Any other great options for minimum 2k resolution?
Damn your background is realy great and i'm really happy you changed it from the living room to there
:D
Them blue nails though :) Looks like a Capture Device I would set up for like a mini steam room.
I dont understand this comment, what about this specifically makes you want to put it in a mini stream room? Its just a capture card lol
Wow, this was incredibly helpful video and answered just about all the questions I had about the XR1, and you covered retro gaming too?!? Thanks a ton!
@EposVox, did you happen to test if you could run this 'headless'? ie, device plugged into input, NOT plugged into output? I'm wanting to just capture the HDMI from another computer to use it as basically Picture-in-picture.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understand the Advanced Passthrough mode correctly it does have one use case: Watching HDR content on consoles. Since the card doesn't support HDR in normal passthrough mode you would have to unplug and rewire your console every time you wanted to watch a movie in HDR, and then back when you wanted to game. With this feature you can just turn off the capture, making it support HDR passthrough, and turn it back on when gaming. That is still a *very* narrow use case though because I would imagine if people have an HDR capable display, they'd also want to game in HDR. But some people might not care about HDR Gaming, only HDR Movies.
That is a use case, yeah.
Should just normally have hdr Passthrough tbh
@@EposVox Definitely, yes, especially in this point in time where even the consoles are focusing on HDR more or less. And I don't understand what is so difficult about that either. From a logical standpoint it should just be routing a signal from A to B and the chip inside shouldn't even interfere with that. But then again I don't know how these devices work internally so who knows why that's not easily possible...
Well they also have to implement tone mapping to sdr for streaming in OBS and etc. That does get messy
Hi, Adam! Please recommend me best external USB game capture card for PC.. Thanks!
How is your mic audio coming through so clear over game audio?
Have it connected to my Playstation 5 into my PC.
Console game audio is fine in OBS. Without game audio, my mic sounds fine. Once game audio is going though, my mic is completely drained out. Can hardly hear myself.
The volume level for mic input on the XR1 is completely maxed out too.
Glad I watched this! The $109 Elite flash sale price coming up for this box looks really tempting. But I'm not a console gamer, so I don't want this going into the "Bought / Didn't Use" bin. Plus your last point about the port/cable management is the first thing I noticed about this thing-terrible. Anyway, thanks for reviewing this.
I wonder how many units were returned due to the specs on the box not being accurate.
So if I want to play a 1440p 120hz I can’t capture at the same time? Capture and play at same time only at 1080p60
Hi, I'm using earbuds with the EVGA xr1 pro, but the audio is too loud and there is no way to adjust it on the earbuds or through the capture card. Is there a fix? Also, what's the headphone jack to headphone jack that came with the capture card for? thanks
So when my PS5 arrives, I can play 4K/60+ & capture via OBS @ 1080/60 w/ audio to twitch? But if I already have a Avermedia Live Gamer Portable 2 plus.. any benefit to using this EVGA one vs the Avermedia? I use GOXLR as my interface tho... wondering what snags I will run into.
Fsr I just can't get any audio to obs. (Btw I'm using a secondary PC for recording my main PC.) I followed the steps but it just will not work. Do u have any suggestions or advice for what to do?
If my headset is a Bluetooth headset that uses usb would i still be able to use game chat still and the capture card still pick it up?
No 1440p passthrough!? No 120hz!? Ok, hard pass then. That was the only enticing thing about it.
None of that matters if you're using with a console and if you're gaming on a PC you literally have NO reason to need a capture card. People say to offload the work to another computer but that's just stupid. If you have a decent computer, it can handle it all without issue and you can still game. So yeah, using a capture card for playing PC games is idiotic unless you have an older system. And if you have an older system that can't handle streaming and gaming, then you're DEFINITELY not getting 120 FPS at 1440p anyway.
14:14 like I said....
"you're comfortable normally playing in 1440p 120hz and then playing in 1080p60 when you stream"
Honestly this sounds like something a lot of people would like. Not everyone is going to stream everything they do, and being able to have better resolution and refresh rate off-stream without futzing with cables is definitely a value-add. For desktop-style capture equipment like this, a bypass button like this should be standard for exactly the kind of situation you described.
Sure, if all the competing and similarly-priced models didn’t let you just keep your screen at 1440p120
@@EposVox Can you cite some examples? As your video says, you've reviewed a lot of cards, so I doubt I'd find the relevant ones just by watching random reviews. Currently, the XR1 is on sale in a price bracket that seemed rather empty when I was going through the recommendations of other reviewers today (USD125), and some companies do a sale so frequently that it's more accurate to judge by sale price than full price.
1440 to 1080 is an awkward scaling, so my intuition would have been that a model without like the XR1 would be less expensive than competitors with.
I'm having a weird problem where regardless of PS4 settings my EVGA XR1 has a green hint in the preview. OBS is on NV12 (default) and changing it around doesn't really get rid of the hue.
An awesome video as per usual, Adam! 😁 👍 👍
Cheers to you, my man! 🍻
Does this work with mobile devices? Ipad pro 2020? Thank youuuu for answering
I'm just looking for a capture card that will pass through 120hz 1080P to my monitor since I have a PS5. Will it do that?
Will this think capture the BIOS? My Elgato HD60 Pro PCIe card doesn't seem to do it, or I am doing something wrong. I only use the provided apps that came with it. But it doesn't seem to kick in the capture card until windows boots to the desktop. I find it odd it doesn't capture the BIOS as it is sending the signal to the capture card.
At least you can do your makeup with it
Great video mate btw.
I’ve got the xr1 and an Xbox series x but I don’t understand how to get the party chat to come through on twitch …
I have Astro A50 headset, where do I have to connect the jack to? I’m a real noob with all of this, please help 🤦♂️😂
How do i get the PS5 gameplay audio to go through my USB headset?? 🤔
I need help with this. How do the aux ports work? Even when I connect my PS5 controller to one aux port and my PS5 headset to the other, I can't get the game audio to passthrough and the mic on my headset doesn't work.
I just bought it and I'm so stuck with this. Did you find a solution? I'm using Arctis Wireless Pro. Controller plugged into thhe controller input on XR1. Headset plugged into the mic / line connection on XR1. I can get sound through my headset and into OBS, but no mic for party chat. If I change any settings, I get mic input but no OBS stream sound.
@@michaelpirro4525 I actually did get it to work. I'll check my settings and reply again very soon with the info.
I love my Ripsaw HD and really like my Can't Link. The audio section on the Ripsaw is kind of anemic and the Can't Link lies about its USB connection and fps at 1080p. I probably would like this card for its audio performance.
Mine stoped working once I updated my MacBook
Im extremely confused about the advanced passthrough thing. On youtube you can livestream up to 4k, wouldnt you be able to hook this up as a second “monitor” on your streaming PC and stream a full res copy of your gaming pc?
The max this card will capture is 1080p. That's the highest you can stream without upscaling
16:35 they are calling it passthrough but it's really called "Bypass" but could be called by-passthrough, because the signal is passing through the unit, but not the hardware. Should have been called Bypass...
Compared to the asus capture card which do you recommend? Because i want to play at 120hz while stream gets 60fps
Then get the asus
Thank you!
100% agree on the cable routing: inputs and output should all be on the same side. Make the product wider or taller if you have to.
I’ve been waiting for this thanks
Quick question just ordered this for my switch and have a 2022 msi gaming laptop with a 3070ti would i still need to plug in both usb plugs or just one?
Won’t know til you try
@@EposVox would it damage anything or just not work?
Just won’t work or won’t have all the options
Ok, so it's perfect for 1080p recording. They should just slap a big sticker on the side that says that to override prior marketing.
Man excellent review.. new sub 🤝 firm handshake
Worth it for 60$ ? Im trying to use my pc as a monitor for the consoles
Thank you for this vid…. I know it’s 2 years old … but you saved me from making a mistake of buying this for myself
Nice video. I did end up buying this card today but it was from someone selling it for $80. For that price I went with it :D
Totally agree that this is for consoles. So many of the "negatives" are going to be awesome for capturing footage for my Steam Deck that's on it's way. :D
weirdly the xr1 is going for 40 - 50 usd here in singapore. Replaced my genki shadowcast and it is a big difference. For that price, it is unbeatable.
I use a separate cable for my microphone and don't have a combo headset... Has anyone figured out how the heck you're supposed to setup your mic audio? I got my headphones/speakers working just fine with it. I'm lost at this step :/
I just got one for $50 off eBay . Excited
i feel like everytime i find myself on an epos vox video since way back in the 'how to save your blu ray library' days, im constantly reminded of just how freaking cool of a person you are lol like shit look at that wavebird, and those nails and the neon. cmon leave some cool for the rest of us lol
Bahaha well thanks!
I know you said that you wouldn't recommend this for pc streaming
but it's currently 200$ CAD with free shipping would this be worth getting for a dual pc streaming setup over the Elgato HD60+ currently priced at 300$ CAD?
If you only want your pc to run at 1080p60hz or 4k60hz
@@EposVox ok thank you for the reply!
Pretty cool card despite its sketchy advertisement.
I am a noob to streaming who is helping someone with a streaming build. He uses a webcam while streaming and currently records on his main drive.
How would this product help in his streaming system?
It wouldn’t.
how do I set this up for playstation :(. I cant get game audio into my Streamlabs
Great video.
Man, you sound like Johnathan Frakes
Can't you have one hdmi cable running from your desktop to this capture card and then another from your desktop to your gaming monitor to get 144hz and still capture the game you are playing
good review, I think I will stick with my startech still. Keep up the good videos .
This is not so great, even if you use it for what it can do. 4K->1080p downscale recording looks horrible. It looks like they scaled down to 480p and then upscale back to 1080p; so much noise. It looks fine on 1080p input recording at 1080p; forget it if you have 4k input though. Even worse, the mic input somehow drains the volume, even maxed out on the XR1, turn up gain on my powered mic to max, the audio volume that comes out in OBS is so low I have to add more gain in post.
Your description of how the scaled video looks definitely isn’t accurate as clearly it doesn’t look like that here
Got one of these as a free bonus when I bought my new Gaming PC (from NewEgg). I have yet to use it- but this seems like it wouldn't be the best for PC... But what are your thoughts on using this to stream Mobile Games (Android)
how do i get to talk to the people im playing cod with everything goes to stream good, but i dont see where i have a mic to talk to game players
Any tips and tricks to get OSSC to work in 2x or 5x? I can't get mine to capture through my Gscart
I don't have a pc can you use an iPad?
Much better than Alpha Gaming review, I wonder how much money El Gato paid him to shit on it.
So if I have a pc and I stream consoles games this would be perfect for me?
Yes
What USB capture card do you recommend?
Thank You for getting that card to work. Watched HarrisHeller trying to get it to work and like you said the instruction were not clear on how that card worked.. I liked the way you broke the card down.. ThANKS mAN..
So no 1080p 120 pass through?
17:00 min mark, you know what i actually would love to have that feature , sorry to desagree with you on this but it is a very convenient feature to just press that button or turn it off, whatever you want call it, so automatically I can use my 1440p monitor at it's fullest. I think is pretty convenient and very smart on their end that they did that. Is not fair at all to say that any other company could have done that, because guess what,they didn't,and still charge top dollar for the capture card,like the $200 i paid for Elgato HD60 Pro. this is on sale at best buy right now for $129.99 ,you can't go wrong with this capture card at that price based in your detailed reviews. So i desagree with you on this point but thank you for helping me make the decision of buying it,oh also because it will allow me to play at 4k,60fps and record at 1080p for those random days when I want to upload a video
I'm using it to capture switch to stream on twitch
That's what I'm mainly using it for as well
Ah, I’ve been waiting on your review of this.
But what about the XR1 pro?
This capture card is a dumpster fire. How do you build a capture card you know runs hot without venting it? I have to manually cool the card down to make it work and be stable.
Got it for $80 on Amazon, so totally worth it at that price.
So do you recommend it or not I am going to buy it for almost 130$
Can we use wireless headset on it ?
If it connects with the analog inputs
Just waiting for Elgato to release an HDMI 2.1 4k60 Pro...
The whole painted fingernails thing is cringe, but your info is amazing. Subscribed!
No HDR passthrough?
Nice RuneScape references.
i am checking amazon but the reviews are making me not want to spend the money, people are saying the quality is very bad but i think people using usb 2.0 ports
Harris tested it and said the 4k pass through did work so hope you can get it working
I did get 4k Passthrough working... It's hdr that doesn't work. As stated and confirmed by EVGA.
Cool that's why more heads can be better thank you very much for clarifying
I was going to buy this until i saw it won’t capture 4K. Thank you
aww yes, I was just thinking about this card, and whether I should get this or the avermedia because I want a USB one, then there is my EposVox video just sitting there waiting on the same day.
Edit: wait, they are marketing it towards PC to other PC capture?
If I just want to capture my nintendo switch to OBS in 1080p and have it passthrough to my 1440p monitor it should be fine though? They are advertising that a 1440p source can be downgraded to 1080p record and output natively/4K, and this is the false part?
Sorry I have done no research into this device apart from this video, and I was trying to decide between this and the avermedia live gamer usb models to just capture some animal crossing haha.
It will work fine for Switch, yes.
Okay, this is the video I needed. Thank you so much for making this, as I was super stoked originally to get it, but the one feature I was really going for, I'm going to have to go with another capture card because if it cannot passthrough more than 60hz and still capture, yeah I can't go with it.
got this card for a friend. it wont even get detected properly - doesnt show up as another monitor and only as an audio device. tried updating bios as well
Have they run HDMI to it. It doesn't "show up as another monitor" unless you're running video into it
@@EposVox yea my bad. Idk what I was thinking. It give that usb bug error about needing to plug in 3.0 and 2.0 and obs doesn't detect it as a video device
@@EposVox guess it just doesnt work on their computer. im having them send it to me, and im giving them my elgato.
I still cant get audio
I must've missed a memo. All these dudes on UA-cam out here wearing nail polish. I don't have a problem with it. It's just... interesting...
Attentionwhoring in action.
Looks cool
I like color. That's all. Those of us in creative fields like self-expression. Pretty straightforward
EposVox I mean, rock that shit. It looks good. Like I said, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Just caught me off guard. That’s all. Lol
@Akiwoa imagine calling someone's self-expression "attentionwhoring." The only one begging for attention is you ;)
"No point buying a capture card for a single pc set up" I'm new to this and trying to get my head around things. Is there a video anyone can point me to where this is explained?
Just search in the videos of this channel about Nvenc
Also i think that the encoder in AMD videocards got an update and it's way better that what is shown in the videos, thats if u have a AMD videocard
So I do have an older video about it but honestly it's not very good and needs re-done.
The gist is that it performs worse than software game capture and doesn't provide any benefits
Thanks for the replies! I'm waiting to pull the trigger on a 3080 (when they're back in stock - maybe 2021 lol). I've edited out the question I had because I'm gonna stop being lazy and watch the damn videos
Wait sooo not a good device to stream on my pc with..? Should I return it lol
If you’re streaming on the same pc you’re gaming on there’s zero benefit to a capture card
@@EposVox thank you for your response!
Honestly this could be a good product for people with lower end PC's. Not everybody has a Beefy PC and a high end monitor. If u have a low end pc and say a laptop to stream with and record with this is pretty good. Like an entry level capture card. For heavy streamers with high end PC's and monitors then yes I agree with you. but thats not all PC streamers.
This is literally no better for those with lower-end PCs than any other capture card I’ve reviewed, and there are a couple others that are cheaper and much better suited for those users. But nothing inherent to this card requires lower specs than the USB offerings from the likes of Elgato or AVerMedia
@@EposVox wow thanks for replying. fair enough tho. I’m pretty new to streaming tech tbh so you probably know better than me. I’m trying to figure out my set up right now. I was just comparing the price to the cheapest options from elgato in which case it seemed good. I didn’t realize there were other options for cheaper. I only just found ur channel and subscribed, so I haven’t seen those reviews but I will check them out, cuz I’m looking for a solution to a frustrating situation. If u have the time Id like to know what you think I should do.
@@EposVox I made a Reddit post looking for a solution if you wanna check it out. www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/comments/k4m8ot/help_options_for_recording_pc_gamplay_to_mac/?
What are your specs?
@@EposVox
CPU: Ryzen 3600x
GPU: RTX 2060
RAM: 16gb Dual Channel 3200mhz
MB: MSI Gaming Pro Carbon Max Wifi
PSU: Corsair RM650 Modular
SSD: WD Black 500gb M.2 NVME
Case: Corsair icue 220t Tempered Glass
The issue I'm trying to solve is that I have a macbook pro that I use for sound design and music production (I'm an audio engineer) and I was hoping to find a way to Record and stream using my mac so my PC can just focus on gaming. I also have a PS4 that I want to record and stream sometimes as well. The only issue I came across is I can't find any capture cards that are compatible with mac that can also pass through more than 60hz. So I'm starting to think that I just have to settle for 60fps while I'm recording or streaming. But whats your take? Is there any options for even 120hz pass through with a mac? Thanks for your reply again!
PS. I know I'm gonna need more space for recording. I only just built this PC. I do have 2 8TB and I'm going to use one of them for the time being but I have to do a bunch of file transferring and formatting first.
Looks like it's unavailable on Amazon?
I'm not sure it's fully released yet. Unclear.
Just got word - more stock coming early Oct!
Ah okay! Thanks!
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT... modern warfare 2 remastered has a multiplayer?!? since when??? what did i miss? is it ps4 only?
This is just normal Modern Warfare Remastered
EposVox thanks for the reply! I totally missed that part. Appreciate it and all the content too!
For the sake of the extra $20 - THe HD60S+ is a no brainer unless you can grab a discount
Anyone have any issues that it shuts off your Webcam when you activate it on streamlabs?
Sounds like you’re maxing out your USB bandwidth. Move the webcam to a different port
@@EposVox I moved my cam to my front port and it worked great! Thanks! You just gained a sub! Great content!
About the nails kids - Epos has been doing this for a bit, and he's NOT the first.
I find it distracting, but seeing a guy with nail polish shouldn't alter your world... For the most part, I feel like YTers use it to promote comments (it works), but we've seen ACTORS do it... It's been done by guys in the NFL and the NBA...skaters have done it...and of course a number of MUSICIANS have worked the media with this trick.
all i want to know is if this capture card will pass through 1440p 120hrz coming form xbox series x. can anyone here verify that?
It won’t when you are in the capture mode, no. Only in the “advanced passthrough mode” which disables the card
Xbox one base too right??
Can somebody list of ALL exact resolution (not Xp, but actual resolution), modes (p/i), and exact refresh rates it support when capturing? Does it only work with 16:9 input and output? What about 16:10, 4:3, 5:4, 3:2, 1:1, etc? What about interlaced video streams? Uncommon, but does happen. What about 1280×720 60 fps or 1280 x 960 60 fps streams? It is impossible to find details in specs exactly. Lets say I connect it to 1920x1920 60Hz monitor, can it be captured, what will be capture resolution? Probably not 1920x1920 60Hz, as the max this card can do is 1920x1080 60Hz, which is clearly less pixels. Can I do something like maybe 1400x1400 60Hz, which is close in pixel count?
Also is it possible to use it without a monitor connected on the output?
I forgot to mention but did test 1080i, worked fine, and I noted 480i as well.
What possible use do you have for 1:1 capture?
Yes you can use it without the output connected
@@EposVox Thanks for the info, that was useful.
I do have a lot of uses for 1:1 capture. This is how I play most of games actually.
Wait what? Why?
@@EposVox Why not. My monitor is 1:1 aspect ratio, and a lot of games play better in this aspect ratio. Granted some don't work, but a lot of RPGs, isometric games, building, strategy games, do work really. I use it for work and gaming. Love it.
Damn no hdr?
So this is thing seems to be worse than the xr1 lite in terms if versatility. A bit upsetting but glad i got the lite.
It's not worse than the Lite, no.
I refunded their latest version. I hate OBS and it's practically unusable without it; i.e. would only support max 720p using hdmi to capture pc. Even myold Avermedia Portable 2 Plus supports more recording options that work.