Thanks for the .581 release

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irongeek

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Thanks for the .581 release, hope it fixes some of the problems of the Elgato and LGP slowly going out of sync (or being able to edit the properties of capture sources while capturing ). Thinking I may be better off to ditch my Canon camcorders and extra HDMI cap, and just go with the Elgatos for slides and a decent webcam for video (Thinking Logitech c615). I'd have to do house audio directly into the computer. I'll be testing out the .581 release at http://www.hack3rcon.org/ tomorrow, and the webcam idea at http://bsidesdelaware.com/ I think. Wish they made webcams with a decent zoom, that is the major think I'd be missing.

Related question, how come some webcam can do "1080p" over USB 2.0 with no noticeable delay, but an HDMI cap dongle can't? Is the 1080p webcam really 1080p in the same sense as the camcorder?
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Any device that claims to do 1080p over USB 2.0, including USB 2.0 webcams like the C920, do video encoding on the hardware itself before transmitting over USB to the computer. The C920 is designed to do that encoding really fast but video quality isn't as important on a webcam as it is with game capture (bad quality is much more forgiving on webcam video than games). So it all comes down to the quality of the onboard encoder.
 
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