Gadgetory

when linus media group first started i wanted to have close ups of products in our unboxing videos but we didn't have the resources to spend half a day shooting b-roll of like a case to overly during a review instead my brilliant idea was to buy a couple of capture cards and use two cameras with a computer as a switcher to go between the two camera angles on the fly this I thought would require two camera operators but would save on editing well that idea sucked and the videos we made that way sucked too but the reason I told the story wasn't to point out one of the many mistakes I've made as a youtuber but rather to explain why I've spent a lot of time shopping for video capture cards over the last couple of years why I've bought a handful of them and then why I hate them so very much the jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Coolermaster is now available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to learn more mostly my issue is that they just aren't user friendly detecting the format of a video source and adapting it on the fly is technology that we've had on TVs and monitors for decades so why is it that many video capture cards require you to manually select an input resolution and refresh rate something that can be surprisingly tricky to do when cameras are such coil it'll about how they're actually putting outputting on top of that black magics intensity Pro actually fairly well-regarded card that cost a lot more than this one here today has suffered from everything from outright refusal to work to the random blue screen issues that we have now on the LAN show across a variety of the lesses and platforms that I've tried to get it working correctly on and that is why I love the AVerMedia live gamer portable coupled with Avery media's rec central software it's fast flexible and so easy to use that my mother could do it if all she wanted to do was capture her gameplay from the same PC with low latency from a separate PC game console or other video device or to an SD card for editing later ok Linus so we're a couple minutes in now and you haven't even talked about the LGP light yet what is your point my point is that if you just want a super easy to use portable video capture device this is the one I would buy seven days of the week because it's basically a live game reportable with a couple fewer features it still got the low latency HDMI pass-through that supports up to 1080 60 P but bear in mind it records at 30fps max it still got the Handy record button on top that tells the software to start capturing it still got analog audio pass-through which can be handy sometimes and it still runs off of just a USB port with no additional power needed but of course this solution costs money compared to free stuff like using your CPU or GPU to do the encoding for you so then why would you care well CPU encoding is not really ideal at all it slows down your computer which if you're streaming like I don't know battle chess or something on Twitch isn't a huge deal but if you're doing something demanding and you don't have a crazy CPU it could legitimately impact your gaming experience GPU encoding on the other hand is a pretty legit competitor here for game streamers with shadow play you can record and stream at 60fps and up to 2560 by 1440 res there's very little performance penalty since the graphics card is using a fairly similar type of hardware it's also a dedicated h.264 encoder it can record constantly so you can go back and capture moments that have already passed and of course it's absolutely free if you have a supported graphics card so then Linus why do we still care about this hardware the answer is flexibility with this external h.264 capture device I can use whatever software I want for streaming and capture whether it's the included app obs/xsplit/whatever I can capture from any non HDCP HDMI equipped device I want whether it's a camera PC console such as a PlayStation 4 or Xbox one as long as you've got the appropriate firmware update for your ps4 or whatever else and I don't have to rely on the system to be booted up and GeForce experience to cooperate with me for it to work in fact I can even record like changing resolutions and stuff like that and it'll still manage to just sort of okay it'll be like whoa no signal okay and then it'll figure it out and it'll keep going these things are extremely robust and aside from all that I acknowledge that not all the stuff I just said will be applicable to the average consumer being able to use it for stuff like recording bio settings has saved us time and improve the production values of our videos and we've done crazy stuff like live broadcasting the entire presentation and in videos GTX 780 Ti launched just by having a live gamer portable hooked up to a Wi-Fi equipped laptop in a backpack and carrying a camera plugged in via HDMI around the venue it's just a really really cool piece of hardware and this one is just like it just without the SD slot as well as the analog input and it's cheaper so conclusion time the reason I agreed to do this review even though it's basically just a slightly trimmed down version of a product that I've already talked about before at a lower price is because I feel like I didn't do the original live gamer portable justice last time and now that I've been using it for so long I feel like I needed to do something to get across what a great device I think it is and whether you go with the deluxe live gamer portable version or the bare-bones lgp light one for your video capture needs be they gaming related or something else entirely I know that you guys will be as happy as I am because unlike so many of the other solutions I've tried it actually just works which is all I ask for thank you for watching guys like this video if you liked it just like it if you just liked it leave a comment letting me know what's your preferred streaming method if you do any you know game streaming 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