EasyCAP USB 2.0 Audio/Video Capture/Surveillance Dongle

[samie57]

I just bought one it will be here tomorrow. Is it ok to use on GT5 and and other games to record video for Youtube. Will it be 🤬 quality? Or will it be good-for-price quality?

 

[boshuter]

I'd be interested in hearing how this works out for you. Even if the quality isn't on par with a high dollar capture card, who really cares for an online video?

 

[samie57]

Okay I will review it on here because it should be here in about a couple hours. If its good for 8$ you can't go wrong.

 

[nick09]

Due to the fact that it records from composite I'd say that it will record SD video fine and the examples I've seen online are in SD quality of course. If it could record from component then there could of been an option for HD video. The quality is well worth it if you got it for $8 since products like Dazzle cost a lot more.

I also learned you can use the ULead software to record from other capture devices(which means you can use this software in the future with other devices). Which means you could upgrade to a more powerful recording hardware and still use the same recording software since it's not limited to the EasyCAP card.

 

[samie57]

Cool thanks.

 

[AOS-]

It's meh, but 8$, you can't complain....

The program allows certain quality outputs, maybe I'm just doing it wrong or have bad settings, but I can get decent quality AVI but at the cost of ridiculously huge files... a couple seconds being a few GB. If I want to cheese it out by opting for the smaller file size I get bad video quality. Here are a few samples of what I have:


AVI without editing in Windows Movie Maker (basically, RAW), super duper huge file size unless you use some compressor that will actually make it smaller.


WMV without editing in Windows Movie Maker, smallest file size you can get


MPEG; where you will get a natural screen stretch.

The program by default records in 4:3, recording in AVI or WMV will retain that, recording in MPEG won't.

 

[nick09]

Personally I would use the uLead software to record the video and then use software like HandBrake(I used this for a mov file from my camera and I retained HD 720P quality from a 225MB file which is 47 seconds long down to 35MB), Virtualdub(if it's AVI), and Divx Plus Converter(It takes a good amount of file formats and compresses them nicely).