Reddit reviews EZCAP.TV 116 EzGrabber USB 2.0 Video Capture VHS to DVD Converter for Windows Vista/7/8/10 Mac OSX 10.5.8
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Convert VHS to DVD, Capture xbox360/playstation3 in colour.Capture and edit analogue video sources to MPEG 1/2 format on your hard diskSupports high quality video resolutionIncludes Arcsoft Showbiz 3.5 Editing Software.
Perhaps the most important and expensive is making sure you have a good computer or laptop that can handle streaming. Hopefully you or a friend in the scene can make that happen, 'cause that will be the biggest expense.
In terms of actual stream equipment, I'm going to assume you want the cheaper options:
You will also want a crt that has an output area in the back or a seperate device called a splitter!
I super recommend this, $50 for a good quality mic that is durable and super easy to set up. Since it is an open mic it will capture extra noise aside from a commentators but I think starting hear is best!
https://obsproject.com/
https://www.xsplit.com/
Old, but this thread can be helpful, even though it's for melee. Has a bunch of products with prices and quality tests.
https://smashboards.com/threads/beginners-guide-to-capturing-and-recording-melee-footage.298260/
For people who just want to record matches for cheap, there are a variety of recording cards, such as:
If you have any questions, lemme know! Stream shit is complicated at first, but once you get into the groove a lot of it makes sense. :)
Easycap clones ($5-10~)
If you're extremely short on funds you can play the easycap clone roulette and hope you get one that kinda works maybe.
You might end up getting one that just happens to suite your needs fine.... or you might not.
Not Reccomended, but cheap
Used Dazzle DVC100 ($20~)
Dazzles can be somewhat cheap used, they're still not the best capture cards money can buy and have some driver issues, but it's a popular choice and works for a lot of people well enough. Can be found on ebay for pretty cheap.
Probably the cheapest option aside from the "Easycrap" clones
KWorld ($30~)
/u/TLoZSR mentioned a while back that he was a fan of This KWorld Capture card.
I've seen a few of his videos with it and they look perfectly fine.
EZCaps ($30-$35~)
I've heard ok things about the legit EZCaps (not the cheap clones)
If you go this route make sure you're not ending up with a fake!
I don't have any personal experience with them.
GV-USB2 ($50~)
This defiantly deserves an honorable mention, although isn't anywhere as cheap as a used dazzle. Default settings out of the box are great, picture quality is very good, good drivers, and pretty much no complaints. Oh and here's an amazon link I guess (can be hard to find elsewhere). Box / driver installation is in Japanese, but not too difficult to figure out.
I use it personally and I really like it
These are all SD capture cards with composite/S-video, composite will look not so great regardless of a powered splitting setup, however it's defiantly recommended if you use S-Video (powered splitters can cost $30-50~), alternatively you may be able to get by without splitters if you have a video cable with both S-Video and composite (s-video would go into your capture card), but you may also lose a bit of quality that way if the cables aren't too good.
https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Splitters explains a fair bit
Good Luck!
I was intending on realtime streaming, and I don't own a tv so having something to both display on my laptop screen and run it in realtime would be a big bonus for me.
I'm looking into just standard-definition capture stuff, which I hope doesn't suffer lag like the GC1000 and other HD capture equipment.
http://www.amazon.com/Ezcap116-Camcorders-Satellite-Playstation3-Software/dp/B003YGJLWU/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Here's some info on the setup:
OpenCV install with Python on Windows
EZGrabber
Once you purchase EZGrabber, you can sign up for the forum. In the forum,they have an old driver that will cause Windows to treat EZGrabber as a webcam which OpenCV will accept. The included driver seems to treat EZGrabber as a different device that OpenCV doesn't like. From there you can connect the receiver video feed to the EzGrabber sending the video to the PC and thus OpenCV.
http://www.amazon.com/EZCAP-TV-EzGrabber-Capture-Converter-Windows/dp/B003YGJLWU there's one for windows too