Mirabox Official Store via Amazon has
Mirabox USB Capture Card with 1080p 60fps HDMI Passthrough, up to 4K Support and Audio & Mic Ports (Grey, HSV3202) on sale for $39.99 - 50% with promo code
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$19.99.
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Mirabox Official Store via Amazon has
Mirabox USB Capture Card with 1080p 60fps HDMI Passthrough, up to 4K Support (Black, HSV320) on sale for $39.99 - 50% with promo code
50DQQAWO during checkout =
$19.99.
Shipping is free.
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About this Item:
- 1080p, 720p HDMI device such as Wii U, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii, Switch etc
- Support for up to 4K passthrough
- Plug-and-play for Windows Unix, Mac OS, windows 7/8/10
- Loopout resolution up to 1080/60Hz, capture resolution up to 1080/60Hz
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The full bandwidth required for uncompressed 1080p60 for HDMI is about 3Gbps, which can be provided over USB 3.0. When the feed comes in uncompressed, you can encode it yourself on the PC end, and any modern PC will be able to do so far more efficiently and flexibly than whatever a cheap USB capture card could manage.
I get what you're saying. There is a potential for USB 2.0 capture devices to have beefy enough encoders to achieve transparency (perceptually indistinguishable from uncompressed) quality, but I'd still prefer uncompressed feeds when possible.
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The full bandwidth required for uncompressed 1080p60 for HDMI is about 3Gbps, which can be provided over USB 3.0. When the feed comes in uncompressed, you can encode it yourself on the PC end, and any modern PC will be able to do so far more efficiently and flexibly than whatever a cheap USB capture card could manage.
I get what you're saying. There is a potential for USB 2.0 capture devices to have beefy enough encoders to achieve transparency (perceptually indistinguishable from uncompressed) quality, but I'd still prefer uncompressed feeds when possible.
You're talking about uncompressed video, which is not something you're going to find on many capture devices, let alone one for $20. And frankly, there's little reason not to do on-device encoding if the source and output are homogeneous anyway, as most streaming platforms are.
The reality is that the device is already doing encoding by way of 4K to 1080P, so whether it's interfacing via USB 2, 3, or even 4 is irrelevant.
Regardless of what you "prefer", this particular device doesn't require the bandwidth.
It accepts 4K input and the description says it outputs 1080P.
The $40 original price should have been a dead giveaway, since higher end devices that output 4K can get up into the 100s.
If you do all your shopping based on pictures and logos alone, that's kind of on you (Panda Express doesn't actually serve panda, by the way).
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Too bad the grey usb3.0 is gone. Usb2.0 should still be fine forn 1080p 60fps encoded stream.
Question is if the passthrough is really lag free.
The elgatos say passthrough but when recording there is a noticable lag. I have to use a dedicated HDMI splitter to avoid the lag
Will stream my record my games for youtube
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(is it having the red caps on the box?)
Contrast and compare that to say Netflix that i am seeing push on my Roku now 1080p content at 2mbps in HEVC (h.265) format.
So yes, if there were a card that compresses "on the fly" video really well, it will use even less bandwidth to transfer to the host, meaning that USB 3.0 is even less needed! Not something that makers of expensive cards will tell you, since if they say "you don't need USB 3.0" then why would you buy from them? It falls in the area of white lies - they put USB 3.0 and advertise that - yet there is zero benefit from that (which they don't mention - or vaguely wave hands "moar is always is better")
But hey, there is something else to think about - to be able to do more compression, device should be able to better analyze large windows of the stream and use "P" and "B" frames (see https://en.wikipedia.or
As a metaphor, think MJPEG as "simultaneous interpretation" when translating from another language - they could do it on the fly, while the other person is speaking. It's not perfect but happens in real time. In contrast, the "offline translation" is able to convey much better of a book or a poem but cannot possibly be done on the fly. Similarly, the streaming services industry (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, Paramount, Disney etc) do not use capture cards to get their final files, that is done in post-processing, offline
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buying both just in case. repped!
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