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this video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance k70 and k95 these fully mechanical keyboards are designed for performance gaming visit Corsair comm slash Vengeance gaming to learn more welcome to my unboxing and first look at the AVerMedia live gamer portable now we covered the live gamer HD not that long ago the main disadvantage of the live gamer HD is that it relies on a PCI Express slot in order to operate so that means that if you're recording PC footage then that's fine because you have a PC that you're using anyway so you might as well just you know have the live gamer HD which is great because it offloads from the cpu with its hardware h.264 encoder and all that good all that good stuff but it I mean it wasn't really the optimal solution for console gamers who want to record their gameplay because you had to have a PC nearby this kind of solves that problem and by kind of solves that problem I mean completely solves that problem in a really big way this is the live gamer portable it comes with three months of a premium license for xsplit meaning you get the update the upgraded audio codec which is the most important thing about premium you can also have more scenes it's okay smart and sharp your all purpose sharing weapon yeah yeah yeah all that good stuff it's USB too so flexible connectivity between PC and game consoles USB interface for direct PC connectivity a simple flip of the switch for PC free mode there you go that's the one that I think is most exciting about this product because otherwise the PCI Express version is already fantastic and has this functionality so aha so they say for class 10 SD HC cards fat32 this one can operate without a PC now it can't capture 1080p 30fps without a PC dot because it just died whether it's the bit rates or whatever else I think the bit rates are up to 60 megabit per second for 1080p 30fps with this particular device so an SD card is just not going to handle it but it will do 720p no problem recording to an SD card and given that you're probably recording from a console in many of the games run in 720p or up sampled 720p anyway you should be getting most of the quality anyhow so here you go pc mode SD card mode when you're in PC mode what you do is you plug it in via USB to and then you are able to record from a variety of different inputs including HDMI and AV and so they include the adapters you need in the box so we'll we'll get that opened up a little bit here and then the output so the pass-through is capable of doing up to 1920 by 1080 60 fps so basically what that means guys is you're able to game at 60 frames per second and record and stream concurrently at 30 frames per second it also uses the same excellent software as the PCI Express version so you've got a bunch of advanced functionality it is so simple to set up I have a number of capture cards now including a Blackmagic intensity Pro and an AVerMedia live gamer HD their rec central is a billion times easier to use you just press like the easy setup mode one and then just just goes like you don't have to worry about it we actually did an NCIX tech tips episode back when we got that card showing how easy it was to use and there really wasn't much of an advantage to using expert mode unless you're really fine-tuning things so audio in audio capture is also possible so you can either capture your commentary constantly or you can mute it and go sort of in and out of it much like the live game or HD and this is something that the more gaming oriented capture cards don't have it has a hardware or it has a hardwired button so you basically just press that when you're ready to record and the software itself stays primed and ready to go so you just be like yep I'm ready to go now here we go and other than that that's it there goes a motorcycle the device is actually powered over USB as well as accepting all the data that it needs over USB so very very very cool so let's go ahead and put that there and let's have a look at what we've got included in terms of accessories and yeah come on out oh this is this is not working okay so what's this xsplit broadcaster so there's your three free months of xsplit premium cool and then we've got gamers own comm Abram and gamers own Davey Mediacom so that's where you'll get the latest rec central which like I said before you will want because it's excellent okay and then inside here we'll get all the accessories including presumably a component adapter so that those Xbox 360 and ps3 gamers who either don't have HDMI or can't use HDMI for whatever reason will be able to connect so there is yes okay what okay so that yeah okay so there's one of our console adapters so this goes out from here to presumably I think that's a ps3 adapter I'm not much of a console guy to be perfectly honest those of you who watched this regularly will already know that so I don't even know or care what that plugs into but the point is it plugs into one of the consoles I think it's a one I think it's ps3 that doesn't support HDMI capture because of hdcp so presumably that's ps3 xbox360 they're probably assuming you're going to use HDMI so they include an extra HDMI cable because what you're doing is you're adding a pass through so you're going to go HDMI in from your console to this okay and then you're going to get whoops and then you're going to go out to the TV now we did some gaming with the live game or HD to find out sort of we were like oh okay well if there's capture hardware in here and if there's all of that stuff going on is this going to add any significant latency to the point where it's going to affect the gameplay experience and the answer is no we didn't notice any difference between running on a TV through the pass-through versus running out directly to the TV which is really important the last thing you want to do is be in a situation where it's like yeah I want to record my epic gameplays and then the tool that allows you to do that makes it so your gameplays are not not so epic anymore which leads us into the rest of the accessories that we have here below so here's your straight component input so there you can plug that into the adapter as well so that's got your RGB as well as your audio cables conveniently color-coded so the blue ones are for audio this has always been kind of funny to me that the the labeling standards for red component is the same as the right channel for audio so that just goes in there no big deal and then you can run whatever component cables you already happen to have on hand over there and then we've also got a USB connector which will be for using the supplied mini USB cable is recommended interesting so there you go maybe try not to lose that although I mean I can't really imagine there being any difference but there you go so it's a 2 a 2 mini B there you go and that powers it and as well as gives you data and then they provide an audio cable so because you're again you're adding one because you have a pass-through as well so commentary can be enabled and disabled with a push-to-talk or a hotkey button and the footage is actually recorded with for to to cut let's color depth would be the right term for that right b-roll yeah 4 2 2 color depth so it's basically more information than 4 to 0 for example but it is recorded using an h.264 format and the reason for that is we're limited by the USB 2 data rate and quite frankly we could end up limited by now I think USB 3 would be capable of capturing uncompressed I mean it's not really the intention of this device to replace sort of professional-grade capture devices where you're trying to capture with sort of 4 4 4 color and you want uncompressed footage that's going to record I mean it would fill up this SD card in a matter of seconds if you were capturing that kind of footage so it's it's not the intention but the idea here is using the onboard encoder to give you a format that's easy to work with preserves enough of the color clarity that you're going to be able to do whatever it is you need to do with it bearing in mind again you're not shooting with a cinema picture profile or something like that you're recording from a computer so the way it looks when you record it should pretty much be the way it's going to look when you output it whereas with a camera you want to record with sort of weird profiles that allow you to do a lot more in post-production see I'm getting a smile for my crew because this was stuff I never understood before they they edumacated me and I was like no no you want it to look good in the viewfinder right and they're like no it's not not actually what's important the LED ring around the outside of the button here can indicate to you whether it's recording right now it can also - so by the color as well as the flickering of it you can tell exactly what the device happens to be doing and you can see here this was a sample provided to Linus tech tips so I will be definitely trying this guy out in fact I guess it's possible we could use I mean this will be super handy we could use this to record mine and slick super mario world livestream which would be kind of freakin awesome because this is portable we just check an SD card in there and like yeah wow that's exciting I didn't even think about that what else can I say oh yeah time shift functionality so what's cool about this is it actually acts as a bit of a buffer so instead of sort of oh you know I want to record that but it just happened you can actually use their time shift functionality to go back and grab stuff that you otherwise may have missed and I think that's pretty much it I mean honestly guys what sets this apart from other capture devices because there's other stuff out there haj has one sort of the pro grade guys like Blackmagic have stuff like their PCI Express cards their external cards what sets us apart it's the gaming optimized features it's things like the excellent integration with xsplit the aver media card was easier to get working with xsplit because I didn't have to dink around with black magics software in order to get it exactly the right way before it actually works now it just worked ok so there's that there's the fact that it comes with the xsplit license for 3 months there's the fact that it has functionality like oh I'm ready to record now I'm not ready to record an hour having that hardware button actually is kind of handy and I mean what else really sets it apart yeah I mean the integration that's what's good about it there you go and it works really well it's more of a consumer grade device that you don't really have to fight with so thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look at the live gamer portable I will definitely give you guys my full impressions of it once we've actually used it but I'm basically saying that it's awesome already just based on my experience with the live gamer HD so don't forget to subscribe fly-ins tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos oh yeah it comes with a sweet little case on the box - I actually didn't show that during the boxing video so you go I wish it was a little bit bigger and it had space for the cables but I don't know I guess it's it's padded so you can see there's some padding to it it's going to prevent like you know scratches and sort of incidental accidental drops to the actual delicate part of your machinery something I also didn't mention before is it doesn't support 1920 by 1200 so 1920 by 1080 only okay guys for the full list of supported input and output resolutions you're going to want to check with avermedia also one thing that I don't want to guarantee because I haven't tried it I've only used HDMI pass-through remember guys with a with an analog input it is going to be doing some processing inside before it can output to HDMI so it might introduce some input latency I don't know I haven't tried that but with a hardware encoder it shouldn't be much that's for sure okay now I think I covered everything and we're done see them every media there