Question / Help Video Capture Cards

[Redderik]

I was wondering if using Video Capture Cards are possible with the "Video Capture Device" option, or is that limited to just things like webcams? Something like this? I was going to have things setup with UStream and we were going to use a regular video camera as our video source to the PC to film an event and broadcast it.

I have a capture card in the PC we're going to use, but I think it was limited to security camera software and I can't get it recognized by anything else except that monitoring software. Any ideas on a potential USB capture card we could use that would get recognized by OBS or if there's any software/hardware that'd let us hook up a video camera to the PC and then into Open Broadcast? We've got sound worked out, it's just getting the video signal.

 

[Krazy]

Yes, capture cards fall under the Video Capture Device category. Note that many capture devices aren't compatible with OBS. I think USB ones are especially problematic.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable about capture cards can give you more specific advice.

 

[Redderik]

Thanks for the reply,

I found a list of devices that aren't working, are there anything that're "approved" or preferred to be used; especially for an application like ours? I'm not looking to stream full screen games, just bring in a video source or two to the computer. At this point an internal card definitely sounds better to use, if anyone has any recommendations.

 

[paibox]

What kind of video sources, though? Composite, component, VGA, HDMI? Most internal capture cards, especially the AVerMedia ones, already work fine in OBS, devices that use a separate sound device for their sound will be supported in the next release.