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media live gamer portable now we covered
the live gamer HD not that long ago the
main disadvantage of the live gamer HD
is that it relies on a PCI Express slot
in order to operate so that means that if you're recording PC footage then
that's fine because you have a PC that you're using anyway so you might as well
just you know have the live gamer HD which is great cuz it offloads from the
CPU with its Hardware h264 encoder and all that good all that good stuff but it
h i mean it wasn't really the optimal solution for console Gamers who want to
record their gameplay because you had to have a PC nearby this kind of solves
that problem and by kind of solves that problem I mean completely solves that
problem in a really big way this is the live game reportable it comes with 3
months of a premium license for xsplit meaning you get the update the upgraded
audio codec which is the most important thing about premium you can also have
more scenes it's okay smart and sharp your allpurpose sharing weapon yeah yeah
yeah all that good stuff it's USB 2 so
flexible connectivity between PC and game consoles USB interface for direct
PC connectivity a simple flip of the switch for PC free mode there you go
that's the one that I think is most exciting about this product because
otherwise the PCI Express version is already fantastic fantastic and has this
functionality so aha so they say for class 10 SDHC cards fat 32 this one can
operate without a PC now it can't capture 1080p 30fps without a PC uh
because it just whether it's the bit rates or whatever else I think the bit
rates are up to 60 megabit per second for 1080p 30 FPS with this particular
device so an SD card is just not going to handle it but it will do 720p no
problem recording an SD card and given that you're probably recording from a
console and many of the games run in 720p or upsampled 720p anyway you should
be getting most of the quality anyhow so here you go PC mode SD card mode when
you're in PC mode what you do is you plug it in via USB 2 and then you are
able to record from a variety of different inputs including HDMI and AVN
so they include the adapters you need in the box so we'll uh uh we'll we'll get
that opened up a little bit here and then the output so the pass through is
capable of doing up to 1920 x 1080 60 FPS so basically what that means guys is
you're able to game at 60 frames per second and record and stream
concurrently at 30 frames per second it also uses the same excellent software as
the PCI Express version so you've got a bunch of advanced functionality it is so
simple to set up I have a number of capture cards now including a black
magic intensity Pro and an a media live gamer HD their Rec Central is is a
billion times easier to use you just press like the easy setup mode one and
then just it just goes like you don't have to worry about it we actually did an NCIX Tech tips episode back when we
got that card showing how easy it was to use and there really wasn't much of an
advantage to using expert mode unless you're really fine-tuning things so
audio in audio capture is also possible so you can either capture your
commentary constantly or you can mute it and go sort of in and out of it much
like the live gamer HD and this is something that the more gaming or oriented capture cards don't have it has
a hardware or it has a hardwired button so you basically just press that when
you're ready to record and the software itself stays primed and ready to go so
you just be like yep I'm ready to go now here we go and other than that that's
it there goes a motorcycle the device is
actually powered over USB as well as
accepting all the data that it needs over USB so very very very cool so let's
go ahead and put that there and let's have a look at what we've got included in terms of accessories
come on out oh this is this is not working okay so what's this xplit
broadcaster so there's your three fre months of xplit Premium
cool and then we've got gamer zone.com a
gamer zone. a media.com so that's where you'll get the latest Rec Central uh
which like I said before you will want because it's
excellent okay and then inside here we'll get all the accessories including
presumably a component adapter so that those Xbox 360 and PS3 Gamers who either
don't have HDMI or can't use HDMI for whatever reason will be able to connect
so there is ah yes okay what the okay so
that yeah okay so there's one of our console adapters so this goes out from
here to presumably I think that's a PS3 adapter I'm not much of a console guy to
be perfectly honest those of you who watch this regularly will already know that so I don't even know or care what
that plugs into but the point is it plugs into one of the consoles I think
it's uh one of I think it's PS3 that
doesn't support HDMI capture because of
hdcp so presumably that's PS3 Xbox 360
they're probably assuming you're going to use HDMI so they include an extra
HDMI cable because what you're doing is you're adding a pass through so you're
going to go HDMI in from your console to
this okay and then you're going to go whoops and then you're going to go out
to the TV now we did some gaming with
the live gamer HD to find out sort of we were like oh okay well if there's
capture Hardware in here and if there's all that stuff going on is this going to
add any significant latency to the point where it's going to affect the gameplay
experience and the answer is no we didn't notice any difference between
running on a TV through the pass through versus running out directly to the TV
which is really important the last thing you want to do is be in a situation
where it's like yeah I want to record my epic game plays and then the tool that allows you to do that makes it so your
game plays are not not so epic anymore which leads us into the rest of the
accessories that we have here below so here's your straight component input so
there you can plug that into the adapter as well so that's got your RGB as well
as your audio cables conveniently colorcoded so the blue ones are for
audio this has always been kind of funny to me that the uh the labeling standards
for red component is the same as the right channel for audio so that just
goes in there no big deal and then you can run whatever component cables you
already happen to have on hand over there and then we've also got a USB
connector which will be for using the supplied mini USB cable is recommended
interesting so there you go maybe try not to lose that although I mean I can't
really imagine there being any difference but uh there you go so it's a
to uh a to mini B there you go and that
powers it and as well as gives you data and then they provide an audio cable so
because you're again you're adding one because you have a pass through as well
so commentary can be enabled and disabled with a push to talk or a hot
key button and the footage is actually recorded with 422 that's color depth
would be the right term for that right Boll yeah 422 color depth so it's
basically more information than 420 for example uh but it is recorded using an
h264 uh format and the reason for that is we're limited by the usb2 data rate
and quite frankly we could end up limited by no I think usb3 would be
capable of capturing uncompressed I mean it's not really the intention of this device to replace sort of professional
grade capture devices where you're trying to capture with sort of 444 color
and you want uncompressed footage that's going to record I mean it would fill up
this SD card in a matter of seconds if you were capturing that kind of footage
so it's it's not the intention but the idea here is using the onboard encoder
to give you a format that's easy to work with preserves enough of the color
Clarity that you're going to be able to do whatever it is you need to do with it
bearing in mind again you're not shooting with a cinema picture profile
or something like that you're recording from a computer so the way it looks when
you record it should pretty much be the way it's going to look when you output
it whereas with a camera you want to record with sort of weird profiles that
allow you to do a lot more in post production see I'm getting a smile from my crew because this was stuff I never
understood before they they edicated me and I was like no no you want it to look
good in the viewfinder right and they're like no no no it's not not actually
what's important um the LED ring around the outside of the button here can
indicate to you uh whether it's recording right now it can also so so by
the color as well as the uh flickering of it you can tell exactly what the
device happens to be doing and you can see here this was a uh sample provided
to Linus Tech tips so I will be definitely trying this guy out in fact I
guess it's possible we could use I mean this will be super handy we could use
this to record a mine and Slick Super Mario World live stream which would be
kind of freaking awesome because this is portable we just cheuck an SD card in
there and like yeah oh that's exciting I
didn't even think about that what else can I say oh yeah time shift
functionality so what's cool about this is it actually acts as a bit of a buffer
so instead of sort of oh oh you know I
um want to record that but it just happened you can actually use their time
shift functionality to go back and grab stuff that you otherwise may have missed
and I think that's pretty much it I mean honestly guys what sets this apart from
other capture devices because there's other stuff out there haage has one uh
sort of the prograde guys like Blackmagic have stuff like their PCI
Express cards their external cards what sets us apart it's the gaming optimized
features it's things like the excellent integration with xplit the a media card
was easier to get working with xplit cuz I didn't have to dink around with black
Magic's software in order to get it exactly the right way before it actually
works no it just worked okay so there's that there's the fact that it comes with
the xplit license for 3 months there's the fact that it has functionality like
oh I'm I'm ready to record now I'm not ready to record now having that Hardware
button actually is kind of Handy and I
mean what else really sets it apart yeah I mean the integration that's
what's good about it there you go and it works really well it's more of a
consumer grade device that you don't really have to fight with so thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look
at the live gamer portable I will definitely give you guys my full
impressions of it once we've actually used it but I'm basically saying that
it's awesome already just based on my experience with the live gamer HD so
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computer videos oh yeah it comes with a sweet little case in the Box too I
actually didn't show that during the unboxing video so there you go I wish it
was a little bit bigger and it had space for the cables but I don't know I guess
it's it's padded so you can see there's some padding to it it's going to prevent
like you know scratches and sort of incidental accidental drops to the
actual delicate part of your Machinery something I also didn't mention before
is it doesn't support 1920 x 1200 so 1920 x 1080 only okay guys for the full
list of supported input and output resolutions you're going to want to check with Aver media also one thing
that I don't want to guarantee because I haven't tried it I've only used HDMI
pass through remember guys with a with an analog input it is going to be
doing some processing inside before it can output to HDMI so it might introduce
some input latency I don't know haven't tried that but with a hardware encoder
it shouldn't be much that's for sure okay now I think I covered everything
and we're done see you got a little a media there