Elgato video capture audio out of sync?

[Gary34]

I see what you’re saying. You are right on this. Thanks for the new word.

[Thermaltake]

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Originally Posted by Hushpower

Arrr... you've come across the comma vs fullstop-decimal point issue. It appears some digitisers have trouble with AmarecTV if Windows is set to use/display a decimal point as a comma instead of a fullstop. This DigitalFAQ topic refers:

https://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vid...g-gv-usb2.html

This may also be causing the problems with VDub.

Try changing your Decimal symbol from a "comma" to a "fullstop" in Windows Settings:

Windows Settings>
Time and Language>
Administrative Language Settings>”Formats” tab>
Additional Settings>
Change the Decimal symbol to a fullstop/period.

It worked. But I still got a lot of lag like frame is on 10fps plus I got no sound.

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Originally Posted by Xhumeka

Did you disable sound in VirtualDub? (right-click video window and deselect sound if memory serves right) It will lag/drop frames if sound is enabled for some reason.

I have both an Elgato and a Diamond VC 500 (which is generally recommended over the Elgato in these forums, but I personally can't tell much of a difference after extensive testing) and they work fine in VirtualDub.

Even if you don't want to replace your Elgato, if you remove the Elgato SOFTWARE application from your workflow that would help a lot. Here's a simple test I did last year using the exact same hardware (the elgato) and comparing the included software with LordSmurf's VirtualDub/Huffyuv instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1GQXEsKsYg

When I click on video windows nothing is happening. No options nothing.


Another thing that I noticed in elgato software is now when elgato is set to 3.5 and I connect my JVC to ES10 I have audio out of sync most of the time. But when I connect my VCR directly to elgato audio is in sync.

[vwestlife]

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Originally Posted by lordsmurf

Bitrate is never exact, not even on CBR. That also means that "3.5" for an Elgato isn't 3.5 either. It's a setting to constrain range-bound near that number.

Elgato's software is definitely using CBR for the video. On the Mac version, the video is always exactly 1500 kbps, no matter what you capture. The Windows version gives you 2500 kbps, but that's still not good enough, because the software is very old and is based on the limitations of being able to compress the video on-the-fly on a 15-year-old PC, so it's using a very low compression efficiency level.