Question / Help Streaming setup for PS4

[krebs34]

Hey everybody, I have streamed some games off of my PC for the past few months, but recently I bought a PS4 and would like to stream them as well. I know that you can just use the built in streaming on the PS4, but I have seen some streams of BF4 and Killzone and others and found that the quality of the stream was lacking despite them having good upload speeds.

So in order to get a quality stream I would like to use my PC to do the encoding and streaming, this can be done with a capture card pretty easily but I do not feel like dropping $100+ on one because I just stream for fun every so often.

My question is, would I be able to get an HDMI splitter (not switcher) and have the HDMI from my PS4 split and one go to my monitor to game on, and have the other go to a HDMI to USB converter then into my PC and have it work with OBS? Or if there is any other cheap/easy way to get that set up working that would be great to know.

Thanks for your time.

kRebs34

 

[Jack0r]

well if you see a capture card as a hdmi to usb adapter, you can definitely get an external usb capture card.
but thats it :)

 

[krebs34]

Okay, that is what I figured. Just thought I would ask, cause buying a HDMI to micro usb ($5) and micro usb to usb ($5) is a lot cheaper than buying any kind of capture card.

 

[Arie]

Okay, that is what I figured. Just thought I would ask, cause buying a HDMI to micro usb ($5) and micro usb to usb ($5) is a lot cheaper than buying any kind of capture card.

That's not going to work.

Get a capture card.

 

[FerretBomb]

Seconded. Not going to work. You get what you pay for. And most of those micro USB->HDMI cables are for devices with the capability to output TO HDMI using their USB port (secondary mode function) with a special cable.

You can't just pipe HDMI into a USB port and expect it to work.

And on a side-note, if you cheap out on the capture card, your cast is going to look even worse than the built-in streaming function. Don't cheap out. It never ends well, and you'll just end up having to re-buy the right part after you get the wrong one and it turns out to be shitty.