I recently bought this AverMedia Live Gamer HD capture card to record my gameplay, because I was sick and tired of using fraps and then encode the videos and shit...
and I must say I am 100% satisfied.
The quality is superior, don't let that youtube video fool you. The actual vid I uploaded was really good.
With this card you can capture gameplay & audio & mic in realtime, encode the video in h264 realtime and then write the recording to a mp4 file on your harddisk. I made a 17min+ gameplay vid and the video was just 1.5Gb ready encoded, high quality h264 (12Mbit). No more VirtualDub to merge the 4Gb avi chunks from fraps, no more handbrake to encode to mp4, nothing. And no more framedrop during recording.
Whoever is interested in recording gameplay, I can fully recommend this card.
to give you a comparison of how bad the quality suffers after uploading to youtube...
The original recording as by the software:
Spoiler:
Code:
D:\Recordings\20120729114938.mp4
General
Complete name : D:\Recordings\20120729114938.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 1.51 GiB
Duration : 17mn 47s
Overall bit rate : 12.1 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-07-29 09:49:39
Tagged date : UTC 2012-07-29 09:49:39
Video #2
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 17mn 47s
Source duration : 17mn 47s
Bit rate : 11.9 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 088 pixels
Original height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Minimum frame rate : 5.449 fps
Maximum frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.190
Stream size : 1.48 GiB (98%)
Source stream size : 1.48 GiB (98%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-07-29 09:49:39
Tagged date : UTC 2012-07-29 09:49:39
mdhd_Duration : 1067414
Color primaries : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M
Transfer characteristics : BT.601-6 525, BT.601-6 625, BT.1358 525, BT.1358 625, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M
Matrix coefficients : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M
Audio #1
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 17mn 47s
Source duration : 17mn 47s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Nominal bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Source stream size : 32.6 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-07-29 09:49:39
Tagged date : UTC 2012-07-29 09:49:39
mdhd_Duration : 1067390
...and here the youtube version after being uploaded & processed:
Spoiler:
Code:
C:\Users\paxsali\Videos\AverMedia Live Gamer HD capture test using Battlefield 3 gameplay.mp4
General
Complete name : C:\Users\paxsali\Videos\AverMedia Live Gamer HD capture test using Battlefield 3 gameplay.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 760 MiB
Duration : 17mn 47s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 5 976 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-07-28 15:11:54
Tagged date : UTC 2012-07-28 15:11:54
gsst : 0
gstd : 1067513
gssd : B55B6FA89MH1343582985531559
gshh : o-o---preferred---hansenet-dus1---v22---lscache2.c.youtube.com
Video #1
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 17mn 47s
Bit rate : 5 781 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 825 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.093
Stream size : 736 MiB (97%)
Tagged date : UTC 2012-07-28 15:15:53
Audio #2
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 17mn 47s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 203 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 24.4 MiB (3%)
Title : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Encoded date : UTC 2012-07-28 15:14:13
Tagged date : UTC 2012-07-28 15:15:53
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