Help with recording from Ps3

[Balphagor_]

After finding out how difficult it was for some people to find information about the first games (1.0's) story I thought it would be nice to record the story once it is complete for this version.

Sadly though on the Ps3 you cant record through the HDMI, but at the same time if you don't use the HDMI then the whole display of the game is just a terrible mess.

Can anyone advise on a way to maybe get this to work? Or would recording from PC be the only option?

[Galione]

Elgato game capture

[TonyUK]

Look at this on eBay:

HD PVR - Hauppauge Colossus - HDMI for xBox and PS3 FULL 1080HD video capture

http://bit.ly/139oKbE

Something like this

[Balphagor_]

Elgato wont work, as like I said you cant record through the HDMI slot, and the Colossus wont work because its not recording through HDMI.

Il repeat this. Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn must be displayed through HDMI, but the Ps3 will not record through HDMI because of how it is made.

Therefore I cannot think of any way it is possible.

If I am wrong please correct me.

[Kittra]

I use the AverMedia Live Gamer HD C985, a Monoprice HDMI Converter (Strips out the HDCP protection), a LOT of cables (no joke) and Open Broadcaster Software (For great x.264 encoding).

[Balphagor_]

How much would you guess all of that would cost?

[Drakkan]

Any video capture card, or usb device to stream it to your pc will work, there's endless options.

I wouldn't spend too much money though, considering PS4 will have streaming built in most of those things will be fairly pointless except for people that want to stream to Twitch or other spesific sites.

[Kittra]

How much would you guess all of that would cost?

Hmmm. The internal video card is about $180 and requires a PCIe x1 slot in your PC (I recommend at least a duo core CPU) and the HDMI converter is $45. The cables are all pretty cheap from Amazon.com, but even then it's probably about an additional $35.
When all is said and done, you're looking at about $260 for the whole setup.

Now if you don't have a strong PC for encoding, you could probably just pick up the HDMI converter and a HD-PVR (it should work the same way as long as you strip out the HDCP protection), but I'd recommend doing some research and see if anyone has a guide out there for setting up an HD-PVR and stripping out the HDCP protection for the PS3.

[Kittra]

I'm also just going to put this out there: My set up was a LOT more expensive than I'm letting on (mostly because I'm a perfectionist).

Due to the AverMedia Live Gamer HD's firmware, there is an audio to video sync issue that is about 0.012ms off and over a period of recording (example: beyond 30 minutes) the issue becomes pretty noticeable.
Thanks to this fact alone, my setup went from a simple $180 purchase (the video card) to about $750... I had to buy 2 internal sound cards and 3 extremely high quality audio cables to completely eradicate the problem. =\

The problem "can" be reduced with with a $9 Y-cable though and you can record about 5 hours of gameplay before you start to notice a problem... but like I said, I'm a perfectionist...