How do I Record my xbox 360 while still playing? PLEASE HELP FAST!!!!

[x2jesse1x]

I bought a USB Capture card/DVD Recorder so that I could record some of my xbox 360 stuff to show some people. Well I installed everything fine. Hooked up the red,Yellow,White component cables into the card. Opened the program everything works fine, Sound comes on,Video works.

BUT the preview screen is only anout 1.5 inches. that is no way big enough to play. So my question is what do I need to do so that I can play while recording on my compute??.

It has to to simple since its already playing on the computer just not big enough. I tried messing with the setting and nothing will change the size.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT
THANKS IN ADVANCE

[bobkart]

Yellow/White/Red is not Component Video but Composite Video (plus stereo analog audio).

You could use a Composite Video and Stereo Audio Distribution Amplifier (I use this one: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&Q=&is=REG&O=productlist&sku=75428)

That gives you one output to send to your capture card and another to send to an NTSC display (TV).

Or you could record your gameplay (via VCR for example), while watching it on a TV at that time (while playing), then once you're finished, play back the recording to the capture card.

I'm sure there are a few other ways to accomplish this as well.

[edDV]

Here's a cheap one from Radio Shack
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103065&cp=2032057.2032187.20321...entPage=family
Works for composite or S-Video.

More
http://www.avtoolbox.com/distributionpage.shtml

[cmilkosk]

Actually, if you are using the Xbox 360 cable that has the Composite Video (yellow cable) and Component (RGB cables) and your TV supports it, plop the RGB in the TV and send the yellow cable to your capture card or whatever. I did a simple test with my xbox 360 and I had composite video displaying on one TV and Component on another at the same time with no degradation in quality.

Chris

[bobkart]

There you go. I didn't know it could send both outputs at the same time.

Now all you need is to be able to send High Definition via the Component Video output and Standard Definition via the Composite Video output.

[ske7ch]

im trying to capture some of my 360 game play also.

But im jsut simply using the capture card that came with my PC, its a Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II. Ive tried using basic Composite cables from my TV output, to the PC input, Nothin. Ive tried using the yellow composite while the RGB is in the TV. And nothing.

I dont know what my problem is.

[ske7ch]

Well i managed to get it to work.

I slide the HD button off on the Xbox360 output..
Ran the RGB to the TV and the Yellow/red/white composites to the Computer (the xbox cable is split, incase you dont have an HD TV).

Now i got video and audio on Vdub, but only video on windows movie maker.

But i loose HD and get no sound on my TV....

So its a loose loose.

Id really prefer to have the video output come from my TV to the capture card. But i cant get that to work.

[bobkart]

But i loose HD and get no sound on my TV....

So its a loose loose.

Id really prefer to have the video output come from my TV to the capture card. But i cant get that to work.

I suspect that the reason the capture card didn't work earlier is that you were still on HD output from the Xbox. You can only capture 480i.

The loss of sound on the TV is because you're sending the audio to the PC instead of to the TV (White/Red RCA). You'll have to split/distribute the audio if you want it to go to both destinations.

Regarding recording SD while playing in HD, yes that would be nice but requires a downconverter. Around $500 is the cheapest I've found.

Video output from your TV probably doesn't work when you send the TV HD signals.

[ske7ch]

Lol ya i know what the loss of sound is from.
Im not that dense. Because i obviously took the audio outa my Surround to connect to the PC.

But ahh, i guess im going to have to resort to just using a DVD recorder to record what i play.

[bobkart]

You'll still have to solve the sound problem. One to the TV and one to the DVD Recorder. You can't play through the recorder due to the delay.

[ske7ch]

hmm

well i just got an audio splitter, and ran one to surround, one to computer.

Here are my current issues (with and without splitter)

I cant get sound in Windows movie maker, AND with specific games, that are new, and have great gfx. The captured video is really....... how can i describe it... distorted in a weird way...

[bobkart]

Possibly you are trying to capture more than 480i. Even 480p will give you strange results.

If you are trying to capture 480i, and the picture looks fine that is coming out of the console, then any problem you see on the PC must be attributable to the capture process itself. Thus it's not a flaw in the configuration with the video game console/TV/PC so much as just capturing period.

Regarding not getting audio with WMM, I'm not sure what you mean. When you play back the captured files, is there audio? That's the bottom line, if yes then you're good, if not then you are apparently not correctly capturing the audio (assuming it is even getting to the inputs of the capture card). Again this would be a general capturing problem as opposed to needing to know how to make the connections among console, display, PC. Make it so you can capture audio in general and it should get the audio from your gameplay.

I do this all by distributing the A/V signal from the PS2 and sending one A/V output to the display and another to a DVD Recorder.