AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable Lite
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,274 words · ~6 min read
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when limus Media Group first started I wanted to have close-ups of products in
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our unboxing videos but we didn't have the resources to spend half a day
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shooting b-roll of like a case to Overlay during a review instead my
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brilliant idea was to buy a couple of capture cards and use two cameras with a
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computer as a switcher to go between the two camera angles on the Fly this I
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thought would require two camera operators but would save on editing well
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that idea sucked and the videos we made that way sucked too but the reason I
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told this story wasn't to point out one of the many mistakes I've made as a
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YouTuber but rather to explain why I've spent a lot of time shopping for video
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capture cards over the last couple of years why I've bought a handful of them
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and then why I hate them so very
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much the Jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Cooler Master is now
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available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to
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learn more mostly my issue is that they just aren't userfriendly detecting the
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format of a video source and adapting it on the Fly is technology that we've had
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in TVs and monitors for decades so why is it that many video capture cards
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require you to manually select an input resolution and refresh rate something
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that can be surprisingly tricky to do when cameras are such koi little about
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how they're actually putting out outputting on top of that black Magic's
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intensity Pro an actually fairly well-regarded card that costs a lot more
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than this one here today has suffered from everything from outright refusal to
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work to the random blue screen issues that we have now on the WAN Show across
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a variety of os's and platforms that I've tried to get it working correctly
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on and that is why I love the Aver media live gamer portable coupled with a
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media's Rec Central software it's fast flexible and so easy to use that my
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mother could do it if all she wanted to do was capture her gaml from the same PC
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with little latency from a separate PC game console or other video device or to
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an SD card for editing later okay lonus so we're a couple minutes in now and you
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haven't even talked about the lgp light yet what is your point my point is that
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if you just want a super easyto use portable video capture device this is
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the one I would buy 7 days of the week cuz it's basically a live game
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reportable with a couple fewer features it's still got the low latency HDMI pass
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through that supports up to 1080 60p but bear in mind it records at 30 FPS Max
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it's still got the handy record button on top that tells the software to start
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capturing it's still got analog audio pass through which can be handy
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sometimes and it still runs off of just a USB port with no additional power
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needed but of course this solution costs
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money compared to free stuff like using your CPU or GPU to do the encoding for
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you so then why would you care well CPU encoding is not really ideal at all it
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slows down your computer which if you're streaming like I don't know battle chest
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or something on Twitch isn't a huge deal but if you're doing something demand in
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and you don't have a crazy CPU it could legitimately impact your gaming
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experience GPU encoding on the other hand is a pretty legit competitor here
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for game streamers with shadowplay you can record and stream at 60 FPS and up
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to 2560 X 1440 res there's very little
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performance penalty since the graphics card is using a fairly similar type of
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Hardware it's also a dedicated h264 en encoder it can record constantly so you
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can go back and Capture Moments that have already passed and of course it's
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absolutely free if you have a imported graphics card so then lonus why do we
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still care about this Hardware the answer is flexibility with this external
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h264 capture device I can use whatever
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software I want for streaming and capture whether it's the included app
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OBS xsplit or whatever I can capture
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from any non hdcp HDMI equipped device I
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want whether it's a camera PC console such as a PlayStation 4 or Xbox one as
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long as you've got the appropriate firmware update for your PS4 or whatever
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else and I don't have to r on the system to be booted up and GeForce experience
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to cooperate with me for it to work in fact I can even record like changing
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resolutions and stuff like that and it'll still manage to just sort of okay
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it'll be like who no signal okay and then it'll figure it out and it'll keep
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going these things are extremely robust and aside from all that I acknowledge
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that not all the stuff I just said will be applicable to the average consumer
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being able to use it for stuff like recording bio settings has saved us time
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and improved the production values of our videos and we've done crazy stuff
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like live broadcasting the entire presentation at NVIDIA's GTX 780 Ti
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launch just by having a live gamer portable hooked up to a Wi-Fi equipped
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laptop in a backpack and carrying a camera plugged in via HDMI around the
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venue it's just a really really cool
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piece of hardware and this one is just like it just without the SD slot as well
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as the analog input
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and it's cheaper so conclusion time the
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reason I agreed to do this review even though it's basically just a slightly
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trim down version of a product that I've already talked about before at a lower
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price is because I feel like I didn't do the original live gamer portable Justice
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last time and now that I've been using it for so long I feel like I needed to
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do something to get across what a great device I think it is and whether you go
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with the deluxe live gamer portable version or the barebones LG GP light one
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for your video capture needs be they gaming related or something else
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entirely I know that you guys will be as happy as I am because unlike so many of
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the other Solutions I've tried it actually just works which is all I ask
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for thank you for watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if
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you disliked it leave a comment letting me know what's your preferred streaming
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method if you do any you know game streaming capture or whatever else and
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