EVGA XR1 Pro Capture Card, 1440p/4K HDR

You definitely have to be careful, there are so many issues with it working with other softwares outside of OBS.
I like OBS it’s free and sometimes more complicated to use. I’d rather use Xsplit or Mirillis Action, but neither of them works properly with this card.
Sad I have a subscription with Xsplit for the next 3 years and this card doesn’t produce like it’s supposed to…the captures with OBS on the other hand are absolutely amazing! No issue at all…

Note: Update the Driver Manually and other software like Mirillis Action, Bandicam, etc won’t acknowledge any signal higher than 720p.

Also, the only other issue is it gets super hot, and no way to turn off the LED lights. But great nonetheless, I’m capturing PS4 Pro and Xbox Series X games in 4K and that makes me happy.

For a budget capture card it definitely gets the job done and is great. However. (And I am unsure if it is just me or others) when you disconnect the card from your PC..it isn’t happy about it and you have to reupload the drivers for it to work again on OBS. So if you are Gunna move it around a lot. Perhaps find a different card. Or look for a solution as I am still not able to find one. But over all still recommend this as it has been working great otherwise

Got it for Switch… works great. I’m not a frame/resolution junkie but it feels like I got what I paid for relative to other models on the market. Took a minute to figure out OBS inputs/outputs and arrange sound properly but EVGA XR1 Lite all the way for a first timer looking to drop under ~$80.

Bought it to stream my Switch on Twitch and it was plug and play and super easy to use. Great quality at a modest price point.

 I needed a capture device for streaming meetings to remote participants from a multi-room setup with an internal RF feed. At some point, the building will be updated to use HDMI throughout, but right now the feed goes into a composite-to-HDMI scaler for the modern side of the setup, and I wanted to use this HDMI source for streaming so everything would still work the same after the eventual upgrade.

The XR1 lite seemed to be up to the task:
– The UVC support means it is plug-and-play on recent operating systems and should continue to be supported going forward. I used it on MacOS Monterey and Windows 10, and the video and audio inputs were automatically recognized on both systems.
– USB3 allows for lossless 1080p capture. The picture quality doesn’t suffer from compression artifacts, and I didn’t notice any dropped frames.
– HDMI passthrough allows it to be part of a larger setup without needing a splitter.
– It was relatively cheap. There are of course cheaper capture devices, but there are trade-offs in video quality.

I tested the device at home with great success. However, when used in its final location, the captured audio was completely glitchy and impossible to understand. I tried everything I could think of but came to the conclusion that the XR1 lite (firmware 09.0e.80) just can’t handle the audio stream from the converter in use (GefenTV GTV-COMPSVID-2-HDMIS v6.04). I recorded a quick video with a Nintendo Wii hooked up to the converter to demonstrate the audio issue.

Apart from this apparent audio incompatibility, it can be hard to troubleshoot what’s happening if the plug-and-play nature of the device fails you. There is a status light that changes color / flashes, but once when I was using the passthrough, there was no capture and the light was simply off until I unplugged the output’s HDMI cable, and everything worked when I plugged the cable back in. The fix was simple, but it’s possible this wouldn’t be completely no-fuss as part of a streaming setup.

In short, the majority of people looking at this device are probably interested in streaming from a gaming console or PC, and if that’s you, I think this is a good choice that will capture high-quality video. If you’re like me and need to handle an arbitrary content source, it’s probably fine in most situations, but be aware that you might hit an incompatibility like I did.