I suggest that you don't bother with the AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985 (an internal device that hardware encodes). AVerMedia sometimes uses different names for its products in different markets If not then you should provide a model number for the device you want to know about. Based on an Amazon listing, it is another name used for the AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985. I kept trying to find out more information about this device. As I recall Cauptain said the same thing in another thread, but I can't find his post now.
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I read some Amazon reviews that says the AVerMedia Game Recorder doesn't drop frames but is the picture quality any good like the Elgato is? Does the Live Gamer Portable do the same as the AVerMedia Game Recorder? I think I have read some reviews for the AVerMedia Game Recorder which indicate the picture quality is not very good. Really hard to know which is the best thing to buy as everything except the Elgato Game Capture HD seems to have 4 star reviews or less with lots of problems mentioned in the reviews. Is there anything else like that besides the ones you mentioned?
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Not bothered if it's hardware or software encoder just as long as it doesn't drop frames. As long as it can capture 1080i via HDMI or Component and doesn't drop frames then I'm interested in it - I assume if it can capture game footage via HDMI or Component then it can also capture TV via the same inputs. Doesn't have to specifically say it captures TV. It works with AmaRecTV for lossless capturing, which you would encode later to a different format. I'm not going to promise you that it will make perfect captures since I have never tried it, or seen examples showing TV captures. It has the same HDMI/DVI chip as the Elgato Game Capture HD (the MStar MST3367CMK). If you want to try a card that uses software to encode, the PEXHDCAP might be interesting as it can record many types of input.
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The Elgato Game Capture HD uses a Fujitsu MB86H58A Transcoder The Hauppauge HD-PVR 2 uses a Magnum DXTPro Encoder/Transcoder chip The Hauppauge Colossus uses a ViXS XCode 3111 encoder chip. The original Hauppauge HD-PVR (no HDMI) uses an Ambarella A2 platform encoder chip The quality may not be as close as you want to the Elgato Game Capture HD, but at least it uses a different encoder chip than the HD-PVR 2 uses. The Hauppauge Colossus is the closest thing I know of to what you want, since it can at least capture 1080i50 TV. Game capture seems to be the primary use for recent HD capture devices, and almost all are USB 2.0. Can anyone recommend an internal capture card that gives good quality like the Elgato Game Capture HD, and which doesn't drop frames and can capture HDMI 1080i TV? I would like to record in 14 Mbps variable bitrate.