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got a different HDMI adapter. Quicktime still is defective.
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@Moon capture cards?
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How does anyone stream anything because all this shit don't work
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@Moon there's a bunch of external ones made specifically for gaming and retro gaming
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@coolboymew I have a laptop
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@Moon The Elgato stuff IIRC
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@coolboymew gimme some names or links
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@coolboymew @Moon I have an Elgato HD60s which works alright
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@internetfreak @coolboymew I see them for under a hundred dollars, that may be the way to go, thanks.
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@Moon @internetfreak I'm curious, how do you even have your stuff connected right now
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@coolboymew @internetfreak up to now I have used emulators and just streamed from OBS.
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@Moon @internetfreak yeah but I mean you seemed to have been trying to connect a Dreamcast or something to your Mac for a few days?
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@Moon @internetfreak @coolboymew doesnt work with my dreamcast btw. the 640x480p isnt supported, its "480p" mode is 960x480
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@why @Moon @internetfreak there's a specific one that's for "retro stuff" IIRC, be sure to check if it's right for what you want to do
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@Moon @internetfreak MacOS is kinda a shitshow because random crap can stop working between the yearly updates on top of the Mojave 32-bit support drop, so if you grabbed some old piece of shit there's no guarantee it will continue to work for Mac
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@coolboymew @internetfreak yes. I have three different hdmi input adapters here. I had a vga input adapter but it did not work. I am borrowing an expensive capture adapter that is supposed to work with macos but it doesn't work right but it sometimes works on linux. I just got another cheap 12 dollar adapter today, it doesn't work on macos so trying linux next. it is ridiculous how hard this is.
here's the alleged "manual" for an elgato lol:
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@coolboymew @why @internetfreak I mean, the adapter I'm borrowing gets the signal into the mac, it's just that the piece of shit mac makes the video choppy when I select the hdmi audio capture instead of microphone
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@why @internetfreak @coolboymew you would figure that putting a digital signal into a computer would work better than an analog capture device, hilariously this does not seem to be the case.
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@why @Moon @coolboymew Might need to do an analog to hdmi conversion adapter thing
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@internetfreak @Moon @coolboymew i just use a separate composite capture card
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@coolboymew @internetfreak as miserable as I am I am not going to the next level of misery by installing windows
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These adapters are just UVC and all use the same drivers, should just work magically out of the box on any OS without additional drivers 😭😭
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@feld @internetfreak @coolboymew it would be useful to know if it doesn't support some signal resolutions.
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@Moon @feld @internetfreak it's case it's the DC's weird res, can you try them with anything else?
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@coolboymew @feld @internetfreak literally all I want this for is the dreamcast, everything else I can use my retrotink for.
I ordered a device that lets you put VGA into a retrotink so that will probably solve this problem at least on linux, can't do anything about my mac not doing sound correctly with any adapter I've tried
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@coolboymew @feld @internetfreak well originally it was for capturing TempleOS but that is also 640x480. That also failed for multiple reasons, though
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@Moon @feld @internetfreak try it with something else, then you can determine if it's the DC's res and you need something very specific for the DC, or if everything else fails too
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@Moon @feld @internetfreak
I feel like @ooignignoktoo could know a thing or two about this
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@Moon @coolboymew @internetfreak I wonder if it the adapter needs a DAC since VGA is an analog signal and HDMI is digital.
It could also be due to the dreamcast outputting resolution at 240p and some adapters hate that signal/resolution. Something like an OSSC would bypass that with upscaling/converting the signal.
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@ooignignoktoo @coolboymew @internetfreak that's what I am going to do soon, I have an adapter coming so I can pump VGA into my RetroTink which will output bog-standard 1080p that anything should be able to capture.
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@Moon @coolboymew @internetfreak I need to do something similar myself. If I wasn't worried aobut long term finances I'd love to get a DCHDMI kit to have build in HDMI on the console. The external HDMI adapter I got from pound works but it kinda sucks for my setup pound cable is great for a 720p display or lower but at 4k it doesn't scale right and the picture is too small.
I've heard Flycast and NullDC emulation has come a long ways and most games I cared about on DC have ports on other consoles now so I've contemplated selling it but I got a lot of sentimental value over it since I got it for my 16th birthday.
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