"Capture Game" source is missing!
- Thread starter Lovecraft
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"Game Capture" was renamed to "Syphon Client" a few versions ago to be more specific. On Mac, "Game Capture" was accomplished by using a program called SyphonInject to capture games. However, as of Mojave, SyphonInject does not work anymore on Mac. However, OBS still works with other things that can output Syphon video, so the feature remains.
tl;dr There is no game capture on Mac, it's not "missing".
tl;dr There is no game capture on Mac, it's not "missing".
NoriMori
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In that case, that should really be mentioned in the wiki's QuickStart Guide and Game Capture Guide, which never mention SyphonInject at all, and never mentioned that Game Capture isn't called "Game Capture" on Mac.
I can't make heads or tails of this. SyphonInject doesn't work on Mac, but some things that use it work, so the feature is still there… Even though that's irrelevant because SyphonInject doesn't work?
I can't make heads or tails of this. SyphonInject doesn't work on Mac, but some things that use it work, so the feature is still there… Even though that's irrelevant because SyphonInject doesn't work?
Syphon is a frame-sharing library for Mac. It lets applications share frames with other applications, but those applications each need to be explicitly built to support it. Some apps can implement Syphon as a "sever", which offer up their frames for other Syphon "clients" to view and consume.
SyphonInject was a third party application that someone else made (not the Syphon devs) that "injected" Syphon server capability into applications that did not natively support Syphon output (such as most games). The injection mechanism that it used was deprecated in Mojave, so it was no longer possible to force games to share frames over Syphon if they didn't already natively support it.
The "Syphon Source" is still useful for applications that support Syphon output as a core feature. We used to call it Game Capture because that was easier than explaining to people what Syphon was and how it worked. That may have arguably been a mistake, but we've corrected it now by renaming the source to be more accurate to describe what it does, especially since the game capture use case became impossible with the deprecation of SyphonInject.
SyphonInject was a third party application that someone else made (not the Syphon devs) that "injected" Syphon server capability into applications that did not natively support Syphon output (such as most games). The injection mechanism that it used was deprecated in Mojave, so it was no longer possible to force games to share frames over Syphon if they didn't already natively support it.
The "Syphon Source" is still useful for applications that support Syphon output as a core feature. We used to call it Game Capture because that was easier than explaining to people what Syphon was and how it worked. That may have arguably been a mistake, but we've corrected it now by renaming the source to be more accurate to describe what it does, especially since the game capture use case became impossible with the deprecation of SyphonInject.