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Windows => Television => Topic started by: mattkhan on October 04, 2017, 05:25:56 am

Title: Do capture cards "just work" in MC?
Post by: mattkhan on October 04, 2017, 05:25:56 am

I put "just work" in quotes as by "just work" I mean "MC can access them and process the av feed" as opposed to "they play flawlessly".

specifically I'm referring to @Yaobing's comment in the sticky thread https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,67300.0.html

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No additional configuration is needed for video capture devices in Media Center 20 or higher.

the sort of device I'm referring to is a capture device like http://www.magewell.com/usb-capture-hdmi-plus which says it is compatible with "Any other DirectShow, V4L2, QuickTime,AV Foundation based encoding or streaming software" and is also listed as having UVC support.

Title: Re: Do capture cards "just work" in MC?
Post by: Yaobing on October 04, 2017, 09:43:00 am

Quote from: mattkhan on October 04, 2017, 05:25:56 am

specifically I'm referring to @Yaobing's comment in the sticky thread https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,67300.0.html

Basically, any device that is a WDM device should work.  However, there are devices that do not provide hardware compression and do not provide software encoder filters.  These may not work well.