What is HDPVRCapture?
HD PVR 2 Manufacturer: Hauppauge Price: $149.99-$159.99 Platform: PC/Mac with 3 rd party software An HD PVR2 was supplied to us for impressions. The HD PVR 2 is a robust capture device which is great for locally recording, editing and uploading of video from game consoles, while offering basic options for live streaming to the internet. HDPVRCapture is a software application which enables you to record HD H.264/AAC video via Hauppauge’s HDPVR Rocket (sold separately), on your Intel Mac. V3 features an attractive UI which is simple to use. Record straight from the default settings or for the advanced user, a selection of features to help you achieve your required output. free. software download for GE Plus Users. Software Download. Download HDPVRCapture Hauppauge Edition to start using HDPVRCapture with your HDPVR 2 GE Plus on your Mac. Minimum OSX Requirement 10.10 or higher. Contact Support. If you need help using your HDPVR 2 GE Plus device with the HDPVRCapture application, please Contact.
HDPVRCapture is a software application which enables you to record HD H.264/AAC video via Hauppauge’s HDPVR Rocket (sold separately), on your Intel Mac.
v3 features an attractive UI which is simple to use. Record straight from the default settings or for the advanced user, a selection of features to help you achieve your required output.
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Features include:
- Video Inputs : Choose between HDMI (HD), Component (HD) or Composite (SD).
- HDMI: 1920x1080p50/60, 1920x1080i50/60, 1280x720p50/60, 720x480i, 720x576i
- Component: 1920x1080p50/60, 1920x1080i50/60, 1280x720p50/60, 720x480i, 720x576i
- Composite: 720x480i and 720x576i.
- Audio Inputs : HDMI/PCM or RCA support.
- Adjustable Bitrate/Quality Vs Disk Space usage.
- 2 Channel AAC audio codec support.
- Zero delay HDMI, Component, Composite and RCA passthrough.
- Monitor video recording with VLC.
- Add converted files to iTunes.
- Adjust Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation (HDMI and Component only).
You can playback the recordings in VLC, Plex, QuickTime and other Mac applications.
System Requirements
- Mac OS 10.11 / 10.12 / 10.13
- Intel 32/64bit only, no PPC support.
- 100MB of free ram to run application.
- 40MB of free disk space to install application (not including storage for recordings).
- Hauppauge HDPVR Rocket (sold separately).
- A spare USB2 or USB3 port.
Free Demo
Try FREE DemoWe offer a free demonstration version of HDPVRCapture which allows you to try the application before purchasing a license key.
Purchase Key
Purchase KeyIf you have tried the demo version and are satisfied everything is working, you can purchase a license key to unlock the software.
Over the christmas holidays I tried to figure out how to live stream the video from my HD-PVR to Twitch.tv on Mac OS with ffmpeg without CamTwist, without XSplit and without JTVLC. Twitch.TV is a video broadcast service where you can stream and watch your gaming content. Its main purpose is for the e-sport and speedrun community but there are more and more normal gamers streaming their content – including me since a few days.
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I am not able understand why most people try to record a preview window of the HD-PVR with a desktop recording software. The HD-PVR sends a high quality 1920 × 1080 pixel MPEGTS Stream over HDMI or Component and I thought that is should be possible to process this stream directly. It seems like it is possible and it quite easy if you know how to do it.
The downside is that I don’t know any option to include a stream from a webcam and microphone. Maybe someone else is more clever than me and will provide one. The HD-PVR Capture Software will cost you $30 but it is worth any penny for people who want to record their recorded HD-PVR footage with a mac . Here we go.
Step 1 : Configuring HD-PVR Capture
Download and install HD-PVR Capture. There is also a demo version available.
With this software we will send the output signal of the HDPVR to the ffmpeg encoder using UDP. I strongly prefer this software over Arcsoft Showbiz on Windows because of its simplicity and reliability.
In HD-PVR Capture are two important settings: Video Encoder and Network.
Video Encoder
- Select the preset „best“.
Personally I think that the insane setting is unnecessary in this case because we will encode the video for web streaming.
Network
- Uncheck the „Store video recording“ option.
We don’t want to fill up our hard drives with tons of videos. - Check the „Send the captured video to network using UDP“ option.
As the IP address use your local ip 127.0.0.1 and the port 1234.
You can verify that it works this if you press the record button, start VLC and go to file -> open network and put this into the address field: udp://@:1234. Hit the play button and you should see the output video mpegts stream of your HDPVR.
Step 2: Setting up ffmpeg
Download and install ffmpeg for mac. You can do this via „brew„. Inside the zip archive you will find the the extracted file „ffmpeg“. This is the executable file and should be moved to the directory /usr/local/bin/. You can do this using Terminal with the command:
Or copy it with the finder from Downloads to the /usr/local/bin/ folder.
Step 3: Executing the ffmpeg command
This is the ffmpeg command with several parameters which has to be executed using the Terminal. This will grab the stream from HDPVR Capture, encode it on the fly and sent it directly to the twitch servers.
Replace live_XXXXX_XXXXXXXX with your personal Twitch.tv Key and then use this command on the terminal to stream the UDP Stream from HDPVR Capture to Twitch.tv.
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Here is a little explanation of the few options I think I understand:
The result should look like this:
Step 4: Check the twitch dashboard
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The UDP Stream from the HD-PVR Capture software is now used by the ffmpeg encoder and is directly send to the twitch servers using RTMP. I get a descent result, a stable frame rate of 30 frames, nearly no compression artifacts and a Stream Configuration Quality: Excellent message on twitch. I don’t know why there are these not-existing PPS referenced error messages showing up but it does not seem to harm the stream quality.
I developed a plugin for wordpress MarcTV Twitch Status which shows the „Live!“-Status of your Twitch account.
You can find my twitch channel here. Feel free to correct my settings and post them in the comment section below.