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Need to get two DSLRs into OBS, so the obvious choice is HDMI capture - both DSLRs output clean on their HDMI ports, and mucking around trying to get them working over USB has simply proven impossible. Even Sparkocam only allows 640x420.
Anyway, I now have an Elgato Game Capture HD, and a Lindy HDMI to USB device. Both work fine, but there's some very odd discrepancies between them that I just can't get my head around, and I don't know whether to blame them (either Lindy or Elgato) or whether it's something I'm doing wrong.
- The Lindy device is great in that there is ZERO delay on there. I mean, there must be a few ms but it isn't noticeable. This is fantastic as I assumed all HDMI capture devices had some delay and you just had to live with it. Yet despite being 1080p in the specs, it is only showing up with a 720p option in OBS. Is this something I've set up wrong? I can't get it in 1080p. They list OBS as the first piece of software it was "officially tested with" in the manual, so it's not like it's not designed to work in OBS.
- Meanwhile the Elgato device is fine with full 1080p, but is really "shonky" for want of a better word. There's horrible delay (about two seconds), and you have to muck about opening the Elgato Game Capture software to get it to initialise. Once it finally fires up in the Elgato software, it won't work in OBS as it just says "In Use By Another Application" so you then have to close the Elgato software and hope it doesn't trip the Live View on the camera out and you have to go through the whole thing again.
In general too - whenever I change something hardware wise (turn a camera off, Live View goes off, a cable is pulled out/swapped), OBS won't refresh the scene. You have to go into the source, change the device to something else, then change it back before OBS shows the live feed again. Is there a way to make it so that OBS will just resume as normal once the camera/source fires up again?
Anyway, I now have an Elgato Game Capture HD, and a Lindy HDMI to USB device. Both work fine, but there's some very odd discrepancies between them that I just can't get my head around, and I don't know whether to blame them (either Lindy or Elgato) or whether it's something I'm doing wrong.
- The Lindy device is great in that there is ZERO delay on there. I mean, there must be a few ms but it isn't noticeable. This is fantastic as I assumed all HDMI capture devices had some delay and you just had to live with it. Yet despite being 1080p in the specs, it is only showing up with a 720p option in OBS. Is this something I've set up wrong? I can't get it in 1080p. They list OBS as the first piece of software it was "officially tested with" in the manual, so it's not like it's not designed to work in OBS.
- Meanwhile the Elgato device is fine with full 1080p, but is really "shonky" for want of a better word. There's horrible delay (about two seconds), and you have to muck about opening the Elgato Game Capture software to get it to initialise. Once it finally fires up in the Elgato software, it won't work in OBS as it just says "In Use By Another Application" so you then have to close the Elgato software and hope it doesn't trip the Live View on the camera out and you have to go through the whole thing again.
In general too - whenever I change something hardware wise (turn a camera off, Live View goes off, a cable is pulled out/swapped), OBS won't refresh the scene. You have to go into the source, change the device to something else, then change it back before OBS shows the live feed again. Is there a way to make it so that OBS will just resume as normal once the camera/source fires up again?
