Capturing Steam Deck on Mac

RobinJPorter

New Member
Hi, I am trying to capture the output of Steam Deck using a USB capture card to create some videos. I have purchased a really cheap USB C capture device from Amazon by a company called Soomfon for less than $25, just to test if this would work.

I have attached the Capture device to the HDMI output of the Steam Deck Dock and then into a USB C port on a Linux PC. When setup and adding the USB capture source in OBS I can only see coloured bars. I have tested other input sources (which work fine) and different operating systems to attempt the capture content but still only see coloured bars.

I'm guessing I was being a bit ambitious trying to do this with such a cheap device. Can anyone tell me if they have captured output from the Steam Deck (is it encoded maybe?) and suggest a better capture device to make this work?

Thanks in advance

Robin Porter
 

RobinJPorter

New Member
It appears to be an issue with the input format not using YUY2. However the only option is NV12 which gives an output of coloured bars again.
 
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