Question / Help Selecting a capture card

[Vaf]

Hi,
first of all these are my system specs:
Phenom II x4 965 3,4 GHz
8 GB Ram
nvidia GeForce GTX 560
win7 64bit

8 mbit down
0.6 mbit up

I already tried streaming BloodBowl Chaos Edition with OBS and it works at a decent quality.
What i want to do is play/stream ps3/wii games, but reading several threads here and on other sites has left me slightly confused.
I have imagined the following setup: PS3/Wii is connected to an external capture card, i play in a window and can see the chat on one single screen.
Since i wanted to invest roughly 100 euros i had my eyes on a roxio capture hd pro.

now my maybe noobish questions:

will this work hardware wise?
is it possible to connect the ps3 via hdmi (i read that there are encryption issues)?

thanks in advance

 

[FerretBomb]

You'll run into problems; capture cards have a delay inherent in processing time. So you'll be looking at the game, and what you see on-screen will be a half second to a few seconds behind what the game console is putting out. It works out badly; why most people either use splitters, or get a capture card with a built-in passthrough, and game on a TV with a second monitor nearby just for chat interaction.

You cannot record PS3 gameplay directly via HDMI. You'll either need to use component/composite cables, or buy an anti-HDCP in-line unit (which are fairly expensive, and some provide degraded output quality). This is a function of the HDCP protocol, and Sony has enabled it for all gameplay and movie playback on the PS3. The menus you can capture... but those aren't all that exciting. ;)

I've heard very good things about the Framemeister... their whole gig is almost zero latency transcoding, to allow playing older consoles on modern TVs/monitors (IIRC their literature says only 1-10ms delay). They also apparently provide a capture-feed as well. But that's beyond your stated budget; one of those will set you back about $400 USD, not counting shipping.