Question / Help Any way to delay a monitor?

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orbo

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Hello! I have sort of a weird problem. So I only have one capture card and have been using it to record gameplay on Xbox One. To get face cam for those videos, I set up a camcorder and am syncing it when editing. Now I am trying to live stream and to do so, I am using the capture card to connect the camcorder to my pc. This only works because Xbox One can stream to Windows 10 which I luckily have. So I thought I was cleaver and tried streaming Xbox One to Windows 10 instead of using my Elgato HD60. That all works! However, the monitor I am recording is almost a second ahead of my HD60.

To get down to the point. I am trying to figure out how I can sync this up. I already synced my Blue Yeti with my Elgato HD60 so my voice and video are together. But I can not figure out how to get my monitor to be 1 second behind or to get my Elgato 1 second faster. The delay kind of kills the experience for any potential viewers. My camcorder is a Canon Vixia R600 and can not be used for live streaming without the capture card.

If it helps here are my pc specs.

-Intel I7 5820k OC 4.2ghz
-Asus GTX 970 Strix 4gb
-500gb Samsung Evo 850 ssd
-3TB WD Black HDD
-16GB 2800mhz DDR4 ram
-MSI Gaming 7 mother board

Other details about what I have tried.

So I had to put a delay on my mic of 550 milliseconds to sync with my Elgato HD60 face cam. I did mess with both to figure out if I could sync the gameplay. the idiot in me tried it for a while before noticing every delay I tried made it further apart.

I searched on this forum and saw a post talking about how you can not delay the monitor due to it being stored in VRAM and taking up too much space for it to work. I am hoping there is a work around or an alternative.


Thank you in advance! If you need any additional information, just ask. I am not sure what all needs to be known but I tried to be explicit.
 
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Nope, Game/Window/Monitor captures cannot be delayed.

A workaround would be buying a copy of DXtory (as it presents as a virtual webcam device, which can be delayed).

A better option would be selling off the HD60 and buying an internal PCIe capture card instead, with significantly lower delay. I highly recommend the Yuan SC512 (same card as my Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI) or finding a Datapath Vision E2(S) off eBay for a hundred bucks or so (doesn't cap audio, but not a problem for a video-only source; also is super low impact, and has a direct-capture plugin for OBS).
 
Thank you for your reply. I tried the Dxtory before but it does not seem to be able to detect the xbox app on windows 10 when streaming. As for the capture card, I was thinking of getting one of those pcie cards for no delay. Which would work. The one you posted is dvi only. I would be using hdmi. Do you know of any good hdmi cards?
 
DVI and HDMI are extremely cross-compatible, and the card he recommended works extremely well with proper hdmi->dvi adapters.

Alternatively, the blackmagic intensity series might work well (intensity pro 4k should work well at a minimum with multiplatform)
 
I have been using the original obs. The streamer tip auto install did not work for multiplatform because obs did not make the right folder in the right places. Is multiplatform better? I could change file names and move things around if it is. I just assumed they were the same.

Okay so I am going to look into a better capture. Lol great. Thank you for the replys.

(sorry for any grammar mistakes, I am on my phone)
 
SC512. DVI and HDMI are pretty much the same thing, just a different plug on the end. Why you can convert from one to the other with a passive adapter. DVI even carries audio, so no worries about splitting it off.
 
Manual setup of multiplatform would probably work with it orbo, just use the correct browser plugin etc.
 
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