Question / Help How to improve Quality?

[dondi]

Hi,

I started to stream in-door football, Futsal, 2012 autumn.
I've used these products for it:

Acer Aspire 5742G - laptop
Sony HDR-CX250E - HD-camera
Ion VIDEO2GO - Videocapture
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OBS

Now I've wondered how I could improve the quality of the stream.

Bitrates it is between 2200-3000.
Resolution 1280x720.
With that videocapture I have only captured video with 640x480 resolution, 29.997fps.

First I streamed @ Ustream but switched to Justin.tv cause I thought the servers are a bit closer. Is this right? I'm living in Finland.

Do I need to buy better capturebox or something like that if I want to stream Futsal HD?

I'm new with these kind of stuff, so it would be nice if someone could help me out!

 

[Krazy]

If the Video Capture Device options are only allowing up to 640x480, then yes, the limiting factor here is indeed the capture device.

I am not very familiar with capture devices, but there are plenty of people around who are. They can likely provide you with good suggestions.

 

[dondi]

I have now started to think if I'd buy new HD-camera that I could plug-in with USB/HDMI. Camera could work like HD Web-camera but I would love if it is like real camera cause I got foot where I will put camera in.

This USB/HDMI thing isn't so popular with new cameras that computer won't read it as web-camera, if I'm correct?

So if someone could suggest good HD-cameras that I can go this thing, I would be really happy. I'll also try to google them by myself.

One option is that I will try to check out if I could try my friends capture device.