Question / Help Any experience with this capture card?

[CliffA]

I'm working on building a dedicated recording/streaming machine for capturing console gameplay and eventually PC gameplay. I'm still on my fruitless search for a capture card that will let me use my two high-quality camcorders instead of crappy PC webcams.

Does anyone have any experience with this Yuan High-Tech SC510N4 card?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R51NLD0/ref=olp_product_details

It supposedly will work with OBS, but I'd like to confirm that with someone here. It's within my budget but I'm nervous about getting a no-name Chinese product.

Alternatively, is anyone using a capture card that OBS will recognize and work with two cameras? If the system need to be Mac or Linux, I can make that happen too. I've tried using an Elgato HD60 and an AVerMedia AVerCapture HD with no luck, OBS couldn't see either one of them under Windows.

 

[Boildown]

Looks similar to this: http://www.yuan.com.tw/products/capture/sc542/sc542n4_hdmi.htm but I can't find the exact model on their web site. The same company makes a clone of the well regarded Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DV. Never used one though.

If you've tried those other capture cards without success, there might be something else wrong. They should work.

I'd probably go with something like this over what you picked: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019M8C602

Or two of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/112198559131
Or this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/192239112226

The problem with the latter two is that they don't do audio.

You want two camcorders, plus a capture for your console / gaming PC? So three inputs? You'll need to make sure how many of the inputs can be used simultaneously, especially on any of the knockoff 4-input models.

 

[CliffA]

Actually, no, I just need the ability to capture the cameras. The HD60 worked fine for gameplay but wouldn't work when a camera was attached (yes, I know, makes no sense).

It seems like this would be simple, but everything I've tried either OBS doesn't see it or OBS only sees one of them.

 

[Boof]

You do not use a capture card to grab your camera, that is just for your game. You connect cameras with USB and set that usb as a source in OBS.

If you have several cameras, rename the given drivers in your Device Manager to separate them.
They each will get their own IRQ so the machine should be able to see them both as long as you can differentiate them. But they must be connected with USB/FIREWIRE or WirelessNetwork if they have that, not directly to your Capture Card.

If you want to use HDMI you need to go the route above having a dedicated HDMI recording card. (Overkill though)

 

[Fenrir]

You do not use a capture card to grab your camera, that is just for your game. You connect cameras with USB and set that usb as a source in OBS.

If you have several cameras, rename the given drivers in your Device Manager to separate them.
They each will get their own IRQ so the machine should be able to see them both as long as you can differentiate them. But they must be connected with USB/FIREWIRE or WirelessNetwork if they have that, not directly to your Capture Card.

If you want to use HDMI you need to go the route above having a dedicated HDMI recording card. (Overkill though)

You seem to be very confused. He's trying to record from two camcorders, not webcams. Those devices cannot be directly added to OBS, and a capture card is required.

Also, "renaming drivers" will do nothing to help "getting their own IRQ". That's just nonsense.

 

[Boildown]

Actually, no, I just need the ability to capture the cameras. The HD60 worked fine for gameplay but wouldn't work when a camera was attached (yes, I know, makes no sense).

Does it work when hooked up to a computer monitor? If so see if there's a button that detects the input format (1280x720 at 30fps... 1920 x 1080 interlaced at 29.97... etc) and then make sure that the capture card is configured the same way. If you can get computer output to work on the capture card but the camcorders won't, then I have to assume the capture card is fine and something is off with the camcorders.