![]() ![]() It capturesthe on-screen action and encodes it for playback on your stream, or a high-quality video file for you to meddle with and post later. The video capture card does what it says on the tin. Its job is simple: to convert in-game footage of you pwning n00bs into digital data that your computer recognizes. What is a video capture card, and how does it work?Ī video capture device, which is often just called a video capture card, is a piece of hardware that’s essential for any game streamer. Find out what a video capture card is, why you need it for streaming, and how you can use it for your Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch-streaming shenanigans. If you want to start streaming your own gaming content, you’ll need to know about video capture cards. Hopefully this helps anyone else that runs into these problems.11 January 2022 6 min read / Teach Me How and Why to Use a Video Capture Card for Game Streaming ![]() I never saw that I didn't need to have Elgato capture software running to get it to come through OBS. ![]() I think this was causing issues with both.Ĥ) Opened OBS, but not the elgato capture software.ĥ) Created video capture sources for both the webcam and elgato capture.Įverything now seems to be working great! I think a large part of the problem I had was I was opening up Elgato Game Capture and OBS at the same time and this was causing some problems. Some times I could click on the icon and nothing would happen. Here is what I have done through some trial and error with the help they provided:ġ) I removed all my sources related to the webcam and elgato capture from OBS.Ģ) Next I unistalled the Elgato game capture software, rebooted, and reinstalled.ģ) I opened task manager and hit "end task" for anything related to OBS and elgato. First, I really want to thank Osiris and Sapiens for the help as I am clearly new to this and not the most tech savvy. Alright, so I think I finally figured this out. ![]()
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