I'm not very good at figuring out how to hook stuff up and everything but I've been wanting to record some Minecraft and EZ Muze stuff I made on Xbox 360. I don't feel like paying $80-$200 for a capture card and installing stuff on my computer. I've been seeing these "USB Capture Devices" online ranging from $2-$40 and from the sound of it, they do a decent job and are easy to use as long as you don't care about HD. All I really care is that you can tell what you're looking at and the audio is pretty clean. My only issue is that I don't know exactly how these things work. They all seem to have receiving audio/video cords along with a black rounded thing and I'm not sure if you're supposed to connect them to the Xbox or the TV. I'm not sure how you'd do either because wouldn't you need the in cords not the out cords? I don't know. Here's an example of one of the devices I'm talking of with a closeup of the cords. Pretty much all the models no matter the price, seem to look nearly identical.
How do these USB Capture devices work?
Guest
First up. Make sure it comes with a driver disk with a program that can read it, many do not and it is a pain in the ^^^ to find the software.
Second, the console plugs into the dongle, the dongle then display's the video on your monitor. Please remember, there's a delay on what you do and what you see on the screen.
Video quality is total garbage. I bought one to transfer family video's from VHS to AVI and the vhs looks better then the video I got in return.
Sparky