**Testing the XSplit Game Capture Card**
After setting up the XSplit game capture card, I was excited to test its capabilities. The card itself is fairly small and has a low profile, making it easy to fit on most desktop setups. When I first booted up OBS (Open Broadcasting Software), which is the software that comes with the capture card, everything seemed fine. However, as soon as I tried playing a game at high frame rates, I noticed that there was a delay between the actual gameplay and the preview feed. This delay was noticeable even in slow-paced games like first-person shooters, where it would be around 20 milliseconds (m/s) of delay.
**Audio Quality**
The audio quality on this capture card seemed to be fine for my testing purposes. I hooked up my Sennheiser gaming headset with a 3.5 millimeter jack to the output and mic in, and everything worked as expected. However, there was one major limitation: I had no control over the level balance of my microphone versus my gameplay audio. This meant that I had to lower the volume of my game sound in-game or on my console to manage it. The advantage of this setup is that all the audio comes through as a single input via the HDMI feed, so theoretically, desync would never be an issue.
**Using the Mic Input**
I decided to test the mic input separately from the line-in input. I plugged the microphone into the mic in port and tested it out while playing a round of a game on my gaming channel. The audio came through clearly, and the auto-aim feature was surprisingly accurate. However, when I switched back to using the line-in input, which allows for external audio to be mixed with the HDMI feed, the experience changed significantly.
**Using External Audio**
I ran an audio cable from my audio mixer directly into the XSplit capture card, essentially bypassing the built-in mic. This allowed me to hear the full stream audio that would normally be routed directly into my computer or OBS. The result was a seamless and synchronized audio feed that worked perfectly with the HDMI video.
**Build Quality**
One notable aspect of this capture card is its build quality. The long sides of the device have ventilation holes, which could potentially serve as a heatsink for the device. However, I decided to disassemble it and remove these screws around the four corners on the bottom, only to find that there was no heat sink or fan inside. It's clear that this capture card doesn't require one, and the chassis is designed more for aesthetics than for cooling.
**Pros and Cons**
Overall, for 120 dollars, this is a pretty decent 1080p 60 capture card. However, it doesn't have anything too fancy as far as scaling modes go, and it doesn't allow for 4k 60 pass-through, which is a bit disappointing. The fact that it can be used with UVC and Linux, as well as Mac, makes it a viable option for those who need these features.
**Conclusion**
The XSplit game capture card seems like a solid choice for anyone looking to stream their gameplay at high quality. While it may not have all the bells and whistles, its low profile and build quality make it easy to fit into most desktop setups. With the right software and setup, this capture card can deliver seamless audio and video feeds that are perfect for live streaming or recording.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enPlex is the media streaming app that beautifully organizes your media collections and lets you securely access them on all your screens now with live TV viewing and DVR click the link in the video description to learn more this is the ELA cliff you like live you like live eli cliff it's the e60 video capture box it is a pretty generic looking video capture card that ya resembles a few of the generic capture cards that i'm actually gonna be reviewing soon on the channel this is a 1080p 60fps capture card that's available currently on Amazon for 100 $19.99 so $120 us it can pass through 4k 30 Hertz but it is not hdmi 2.0 so it's either 4k 30 no 4k 60 pass through and if you do use 4k pass through it will be down scaled to 1080p deering capture but you cannot pass through 4k 60 from a game console so that kind of pass through is pretty much useless and by only putting 4k pass through in the direct like main product to the scene i find that a little misleading and get tired when they do it but they do say at some point on the product page that it's only 30 Hertz which is whatever on one end of the device you have your hdmi full-size input and output for the lag free pass through which is completely untouched as far as I can tell on the other end you have three 3.5 milimeter jacks you have an output jack to run to your headphones preferably a gaming headset that has built-in audio volume control on the headset itself because otherwise you have zero control over the volume out of this and then you have both a microphone and a line in input which is kind of interesting and I'll touch on in a moment and then a USB type-c for 3.1 Gen 1 connectivity and then in the box they actually include quite a bit of cabling for this so right up front you have a USB type-c to type a port if you wish to connect this to your mobile device as this comes from the same line of cloner alliance supporting products that i've covered i covered one capture card of before where with specific apps you can hook it up to a phone and use it not really a viable use case but if you do want to do that you have the USBC adapter or there is a micro USB OTG adapter included in the box as well as an hdmi cable and then there is a driver and application software CD if you so happen to want specific drivers but this is a UVC class device so it does basically work plug and play the drivers install automatically in Windows it works fine in Windows even in the Windows 10 camera app or in VLC or virtually any capture solution I use OBS studio for most of my captures and it does work in my testing in or my brief testing in Linux under boon - and it will probably work in every other and in Mac OS moment on the top of the device you just have the brand name and on the bottom you have a serial sticker as well as a CD key for that ux player app i covered this in my reai cam link knockoff review I'm not gonna I didn't even bother installing it again these kind of capture apps are handy to have if you just really need a capture solution but otherwise I don't even recommend installing them on your system just run with the default driver and OBS or whatever your preferred application is and move along capture spec again it captures up to 1080p 60fps in either MJPEG compressed encoding which would require more CPU power to decode or in the raw yuy 2 for 200 colorspace feet which is the lowest latency and easiest for your cpu to handle if you're on a relatively modern machine there's no RGB mode there's nothing else just Yui 2 or em JPEG which is fine Yui 2 mode looks plenty good enough and I tested it in both full and partial yuy modes in OBS studio if you're not aware of this it's just a way you can configure the feed for the basically our DB range and I found it to be a little contrasting so I actually recommend using the full range both in your OBS settings and in the video capture device settings for this device as it gets pretty contrasting dark at times which this will help with by expanding the range you can capture any way you want it's 1080p signal it looks fine if the input does change resolution or is first detected it will actually show a little banner kind of like old VCRs saying what the input and output resolution is that may bother some purists who want absolutely clean feed it's fine for me and then if you have no signal it actually has a screensaver that pops up saying no signal which is kind of neat again the video capture feed is fine it looks great it works you know it's a capture card they don't exactly look very different looks pretty good it is fairly low latency but as with most capture cards I tried playing a first-person shooter off of the preview and there's just me it can even be as much as 20 m/s of delay between the real-time feed and the preview feed but it's just ever so slight like you could barely tell looking at the you know pass through and the capture side by side but there's just such a small you know there's there's still a delay there that really messes me up for shooters so on top of the fact that I was testing this with the console and haven't played console shooters in a while playing from the previews not a good experience now as far as audio goes audio seemed to be fine from this and I went ahead and tested those I wanna start testing the 3.5 millimeter Jack's more first I hooked up my Sennheiser mast dropped gaming headset to the output and the mic in and that worked alright with this though the problem is that you have no control over the the level balance of your microphone versus your gameplay and things like that so you have to lower your game sound in game or in your console in order to manage it as it all comes through as one input via the HDMI feed in OBS the advantage here is that everything's coming in at the same time so theoretically desync would never be an issue I played a round of it and actually posted it as a sort of live commentary to my gaming channel if you're interested in checking out the full clip but you can listen to a little bit of this and the auto aim the auto aim drug me between people what a joke man I got that look at that auto aim that's just drugs so far and then I did the same thing but instead of using the microphone input I used these line in input now theoretically you can use both of these and use the line in to run your stream alerts sound or your phone for playing music or something but I just simply unplug the microphone and then ran a line out from my audio mixer to this so then you could get your full stream audio that you would normally have routing directly into your computer or into OBS but route it in here to go along with the audio or with the HDMI feed and again stay in sync but you get to hear my fancy microphone that I'm using now again sample upload it to the gaming channel but you can listen to a little bit of it here there I've blocked the enemies opponents every say it in sports ball yeah that guy's gonna carry us to maybe time I'm impressed I'm not helping now the long sides of the device have some ventilation holes as if this is like a heatsink for the device however I went ahead and undid the size for ibelieve hex screws around the four corners on the bottom and took it out there's no heat sink there's no fan nothing like that it's not even using the chassis as a heatsink it's fine most of these don't require it I do worry about like super long term reliability of not running heat sinks on these capture cards but it's just for show it looks nice but it is pretty high build quality and it's solid state like there's no components that are gonna move around so even if you drop this thing a few times it should be fine because there's nothing in there to like break off or anything really overall for 120 bucks this is a pretty decent 1080p 60 capture card if you need something that has UVC or Linux and Mac support this is an option for you it doesn't have anything too fancy as far as scaling modes go or anything like that and it doesn't doesn't allow for 4k 60 pass-through which is a little disappointing and I hate when products advertised 4k and it's only 4k 30 Hertz because virtually nothing transmits a 4k 30 Hertz signal yeah there you go pretty straightforward product affiliate product links will be in the description below as always if you're watching this in early-to-mid know member ish they do have a coupon for 20% off your purchase this isn't like a fancy coupon for just me this is a sale they are running and of course Black Friday Cyber Monday going on but wanted to let you know about it anyway just because always better to save a little money and you get about 24 bucks off with the coupon thank you so much for watching hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education and video capture card reviews and I will see you in the next onePlex is the media streaming app that beautifully organizes your media collections and lets you securely access them on all your screens now with live TV viewing and DVR click the link in the video description to learn more this is the ELA cliff you like live you like live eli cliff it's the e60 video capture box it is a pretty generic looking video capture card that ya resembles a few of the generic capture cards that i'm actually gonna be reviewing soon on the channel this is a 1080p 60fps capture card that's available currently on Amazon for 100 $19.99 so $120 us it can pass through 4k 30 Hertz but it is not hdmi 2.0 so it's either 4k 30 no 4k 60 pass through and if you do use 4k pass through it will be down scaled to 1080p deering capture but you cannot pass through 4k 60 from a game console so that kind of pass through is pretty much useless and by only putting 4k pass through in the direct like main product to the scene i find that a little misleading and get tired when they do it but they do say at some point on the product page that it's only 30 Hertz which is whatever on one end of the device you have your hdmi full-size input and output for the lag free pass through which is completely untouched as far as I can tell on the other end you have three 3.5 milimeter jacks you have an output jack to run to your headphones preferably a gaming headset that has built-in audio volume control on the headset itself because otherwise you have zero control over the volume out of this and then you have both a microphone and a line in input which is kind of interesting and I'll touch on in a moment and then a USB type-c for 3.1 Gen 1 connectivity and then in the box they actually include quite a bit of cabling for this so right up front you have a USB type-c to type a port if you wish to connect this to your mobile device as this comes from the same line of cloner alliance supporting products that i've covered i covered one capture card of before where with specific apps you can hook it up to a phone and use it not really a viable use case but if you do want to do that you have the USBC adapter or there is a micro USB OTG adapter included in the box as well as an hdmi cable and then there is a driver and application software CD if you so happen to want specific drivers but this is a UVC class device so it does basically work plug and play the drivers install automatically in Windows it works fine in Windows even in the Windows 10 camera app or in VLC or virtually any capture solution I use OBS studio for most of my captures and it does work in my testing in or my brief testing in Linux under boon - and it will probably work in every other and in Mac OS moment on the top of the device you just have the brand name and on the bottom you have a serial sticker as well as a CD key for that ux player app i covered this in my reai cam link knockoff review I'm not gonna I didn't even bother installing it again these kind of capture apps are handy to have if you just really need a capture solution but otherwise I don't even recommend installing them on your system just run with the default driver and OBS or whatever your preferred application is and move along capture spec again it captures up to 1080p 60fps in either MJPEG compressed encoding which would require more CPU power to decode or in the raw yuy 2 for 200 colorspace feet which is the lowest latency and easiest for your cpu to handle if you're on a relatively modern machine there's no RGB mode there's nothing else just Yui 2 or em JPEG which is fine Yui 2 mode looks plenty good enough and I tested it in both full and partial yuy modes in OBS studio if you're not aware of this it's just a way you can configure the feed for the basically our DB range and I found it to be a little contrasting so I actually recommend using the full range both in your OBS settings and in the video capture device settings for this device as it gets pretty contrasting dark at times which this will help with by expanding the range you can capture any way you want it's 1080p signal it looks fine if the input does change resolution or is first detected it will actually show a little banner kind of like old VCRs saying what the input and output resolution is that may bother some purists who want absolutely clean feed it's fine for me and then if you have no signal it actually has a screensaver that pops up saying no signal which is kind of neat again the video capture feed is fine it looks great it works you know it's a capture card they don't exactly look very different looks pretty good it is fairly low latency but as with most capture cards I tried playing a first-person shooter off of the preview and there's just me it can even be as much as 20 m/s of delay between the real-time feed and the preview feed but it's just ever so slight like you could barely tell looking at the you know pass through and the capture side by side but there's just such a small you know there's there's still a delay there that really messes me up for shooters so on top of the fact that I was testing this with the console and haven't played console shooters in a while playing from the previews not a good experience now as far as audio goes audio seemed to be fine from this and I went ahead and tested those I wanna start testing the 3.5 millimeter Jack's more first I hooked up my Sennheiser mast dropped gaming headset to the output and the mic in and that worked alright with this though the problem is that you have no control over the the level balance of your microphone versus your gameplay and things like that so you have to lower your game sound in game or in your console in order to manage it as it all comes through as one input via the HDMI feed in OBS the advantage here is that everything's coming in at the same time so theoretically desync would never be an issue I played a round of it and actually posted it as a sort of live commentary to my gaming channel if you're interested in checking out the full clip but you can listen to a little bit of this and the auto aim the auto aim drug me between people what a joke man I got that look at that auto aim that's just drugs so far and then I did the same thing but instead of using the microphone input I used these line in input now theoretically you can use both of these and use the line in to run your stream alerts sound or your phone for playing music or something but I just simply unplug the microphone and then ran a line out from my audio mixer to this so then you could get your full stream audio that you would normally have routing directly into your computer or into OBS but route it in here to go along with the audio or with the HDMI feed and again stay in sync but you get to hear my fancy microphone that I'm using now again sample upload it to the gaming channel but you can listen to a little bit of it here there I've blocked the enemies opponents every say it in sports ball yeah that guy's gonna carry us to maybe time I'm impressed I'm not helping now the long sides of the device have some ventilation holes as if this is like a heatsink for the device however I went ahead and undid the size for ibelieve hex screws around the four corners on the bottom and took it out there's no heat sink there's no fan nothing like that it's not even using the chassis as a heatsink it's fine most of these don't require it I do worry about like super long term reliability of not running heat sinks on these capture cards but it's just for show it looks nice but it is pretty high build quality and it's solid state like there's no components that are gonna move around so even if you drop this thing a few times it should be fine because there's nothing in there to like break off or anything really overall for 120 bucks this is a pretty decent 1080p 60 capture card if you need something that has UVC or Linux and Mac support this is an option for you it doesn't have anything too fancy as far as scaling modes go or anything like that and it doesn't doesn't allow for 4k 60 pass-through which is a little disappointing and I hate when products advertised 4k and it's only 4k 30 Hertz because virtually nothing transmits a 4k 30 Hertz signal yeah there you go pretty straightforward product affiliate product links will be in the description below as always if you're watching this in early-to-mid know member ish they do have a coupon for 20% off your purchase this isn't like a fancy coupon for just me this is a sale they are running and of course Black Friday Cyber Monday going on but wanted to let you know about it anyway just because always better to save a little money and you get about 24 bucks off with the coupon thank you so much for watching hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education and video capture card reviews and I will see you in the next one\n"
