Question / Help streaming xbox one gameplay through obs

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Johny Luong

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I'm new to this and was wondering if anyone can help me stream gameplay from my xbox one through obs...im using a laptop and I don't have a capture card, but I tested the stream before and I can hear audio during the stream...im just not sure how to capture video game footage from my xbox one if its possible...any help would be appreciated
 
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Johny Luong

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thanks for the comment DoAGoldeneye, but unfortunately I didn't have the laptop connected to my xbox one in anyway, I was only figuring out if I can somehow stream gameplay and found out I needed a capture card after all
 
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obsgyn

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If I could extend Johny's question:

I have a Legato HD sitting around here somewhere. If I were to capture from console off of that, it would result in the already "meh" legato encoding being re-encoded via OBS. I presume this would be the same with any and all capture cards, including the Avermedia?

I'm interested in capturing my consoles through OBS, but am unsure if there is a way to do so without sending an already encoded stream to OBS to be re-encoded (when it is merged with the rest of your scene content).
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Non-USB 2.0 HD capture cards (i.e. USB 3.0 and PCIe capture cards) can output raw video to OBS.
 
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obsgyn

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dodgepong said:
Non-USB 2.0 HD capture cards (i.e. USB 3.0 and PCIe capture cards) can output raw video to OBS.
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Cool. Thank you for clarifying that. The Elgato I have (and barely ever used) is the Elgato Game Capture HD from 2012, so I think it is USB 2.0 only. That would explain why it has so few options to it (and I'm someone who spent two full weeks evaluating my "perfect" 264 encoding). I have a massive rig, but with all the space a pair of GPUs takes up, there's no space for a dedicated internal capture card. Maybe buying the latest Elgato (assuming USB 3x) would be the solution (or finally pull the trigger on a second streaming/encoding-only rig and figure out how to feed content from the gaming rig to it most efficiently).

Anyway, thanks for the information. I couldn't find the answer to that for the life of me and it seemed unlikely that people were just happy with re-encoding a stream. Now I see they aren't! :D
 
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DoAGoldeneye

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obsgyn said:
..Maybe buying the latest Elgato (assuming USB 3x) would be the solution (or finally pull the trigger on a second streaming/encoding-only rig and figure out how to feed content from the gaming rig to it most efficiently)....
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The Elgato HD60 still uses USB 2.0 and pre-encodes it's video. I did the same research. Ended up at the LGX and couldn't be more satisfied with it.
 
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