Capture Card Nintendo Switch, Video Game Capture Card 4K 1080P 60FPS, HDMI to USB 3.0 Capture Card for Streaming Work with PS4/PC/OBS/Camera

This is a great little capture card. It was physically easy to install, but getting it paired with OBS took some time. Whether that's my hinky laptop's problem or the card being a more affordable card I don't know. I've had this for about 3 weeks and after I was able to clear the problems with OBS up, it's worked great. If you switch your USB ports around, you will have to reboot your system for OBS to find it again, or so that was my experience. I use Windows 11.I have two USB hub devices on my laptop, one hub is used for its HDMI port for my TV, and the other is a pure 7-slot USB hub as my laptop doesn't have a lot of USB ports. This capture card is plugged into my Anker 7-slot hub. It works great there. I DID have to buy a USB 3.0 cord from JSAUX as the USB cord that came with the card was horribly short, like 1.5 feet. For my card setup, one HDMI slot goes from the card to the TV and one goes from the Nintendo Switch to the card. Using this card, I am still able to use my TV as an extra monitor for my PC (I have an HDMI cord plugged in directly to my PC from the TV) AND play the game from my much bigger TV (courtesy of this capture card's HDMI port to my TV). No splitter is required with my setup.I will caution people to pay attention to the heat level on the card if they are leaving it lying flat on a surface. The card will get a little warm. This is why my picture shows the card suspended between the capture card and my USB hub. It keeps the card cooler. I keep a small desk fan on my Switch to keep it from overheating as well.One Note: Windows seems to be updating my Windows 11 PC furiously this week. While before, OBS only had one "USB Device" option in Properties for my Video Capture Device, it now comes up with 2; one greyed out and one bright white. If you get a black screen when you start up OBS, click on the grey USB Device selection under Video Capture Device and it will bounce around to something else at which time you can select the bright white "USB Device" in the properties area. Don't know why this is occurring and again it may just be my laptop manufacturer causing the problem, but if you have this black screen problem going back in and selecting the USB Device again might solve it.If you are participating in a challenge and need a way to capture your Switch play to your PC to record it, this is a great little card that is incredibly affordable. I won't know how durable it is until sufficient time passes, but for now, it's doing its job very well. =)

This is an amazing product, I honestly don’t see myself getting a more expensive one in the future.The video quality doesn’t degrade whatsoever when transferred to my streaming software and works great on stream.I was super nervous because of the “meh” reviews for installation, but it wasn’t difficult for me at all (however I do have some prior experience with software/hardware of technology and video games). I got it first try which was nice considering what the reviews told me to expect.The one thing to be aware of for installation: the computer recognizes it as a video input similar to a camera. If you want to view it on your computer, use it like you would a camera, and add it to a stream software (I use Streamlabs and am familiar with OBS, its simple to add - just make sure you add another “camera” and select the UBS device for the source instead of a formal camera if you have one) or a software similar to it, something that lets you see the input of a outside device, like testing a camera on Zoom or a private vc on discord.For tech nerds: I didn’t need to update drivers or anything techy averages may not know, I literally plugged in the HDMI cord to the Switch Dock and to the Decoder, then the UBS input to the computer (and the power cord for the dock itself) and the moment I plugged it in the computer recognized it and it worked fine.Probably 15-30 min set up for me. The box had a diagram for what cords you need depending on if you’re sharing a phone screen, displaying an XBOX or PlayStation, or switch, or something of the like. It also came with the necessary USB and HDMI too, so don’t worry about purchasing any other cords either.

So, there were definitely some issues I had for a while, especially when it came to capturing the sound. In Streamlabs and TikTok Live Studio, it was a hassle.Let me preface that I have a laptop, not a tower. At first, my monitor was a little older, and didn't have a direct HDMI port, so I had to get a DVI to HDMI cable to capture the video. That took some time, but I managed to get it. Then, come to find out that those cables don't capture sound, just the display, or at least for me.I was having issues getting the sound to work and eventually had to switch monitors for it to work, but then the sound would come out through the port in the card and not my headphones connected to my blue yeti, so that was hard to deal with. I did have to go through these reviews, and the issue about the sound I was able to figure out by looking through here and changing the input to the USB 3.0 audio, but to get it working through Streamlabs and TikTok, it took more time.I went to sleep, woke up, and magically, everything was fixed the next morning. Maybe my computer restarted when I was sleeping? Who knows. Now that it works, it works great. No issues with the sound or video capture, no buffering either.

Had it for two days now and in those two days Ive put it through some test and it does really hold up. Its obviously not as quality as an elgato card but for 1/3rd of the price its well worth it to hold yourself over. The two things I've noticed while using it is it does stutter occasionally and it wasn't the most straightforward on obs with it having echoing audio out the box. To fix that you need to go into the capture card audio settings and put it on monitoring only as well as the desktop audio, put it on monitoring only. The second thing is the user manual was not helpful at all In my opinion. Luckily it is straightforward as its just a plug and play but for a new user it might be a tad confusing. Luckily there are a few tutorials for anyone who has trouble. Besides those couple of minor setbacks its definitely a quality card for its price. It can run 1440p at 6000 bit rate on twitch perfectly fine but on YouTube since they compress videos so much to begin with 4k recording isn't that reliable. Not something that is the cards fault just something you should keep in mind if you're thinking of uploading on YouTube.