Elgato Unveils Neo Series PC Peripherals Including Capture Card and Stream Deck – Computer – News

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The brand also announces the Game Capture Neo for 130 euros. . The card also supports pass-through in 4k60 HDR.

Passthrough is important for streaming gamers. To be able to game, you don’t want to have any delays on your own signal, it has to reach the screen as quickly as possible and without loss of quality.

You have a little more time for the video stream that goes to the internet, which is not as performance sensitive and does not always have to be processed in real time, as long as you are fast enough on average, it is best to be a bit slower at peak times.

This capture card can record images in up to 1080p with a frame rate of 60fps via an HDMI port

In what format?

Many cameras can stream in 1080p @ 60fps but usually not in good quality. If you really want it right, you will receive a raw, uncompressed video stream that you can compress yourself. Many cameras only send out an MJPEG stream that they have compressed themselves on their small processor, which cannot actually handle it.

That’s why you’re fobbed off with MJPEG. MJPEG is a hack to make videos from jpeg photos from old-fashioned cheap photo cameras so that you can use them as a video camera. As a video format it is ruck. Poor quality and poor compression.

Your PC has a CPU that is much faster and may also have a GPU that can help. This allows you to achieve much better quality and still use less bandwidth. If you spend a lot of money on an expensive camera, it is a shame that you throw away that quality before the signal has left the camera.