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Looks like the one of these I own correctly advertised itself as USB 2.0, but I am constantly amused by the number of identical products by various white label sellers.

In my case I am using it for VHS capture, so it is excellent: The quality is well above the source material.

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I did not at all believe these things would work but in fact they work a treat.

Side note: you can now get what I presume is a similar chip in a CSI camera module for the Raspberry Pi; HDMI source as 30fps camera, basically.

I bought one of these guys based on it's latency tests which showed up being pretty close to the lowest latency USB capture cards out there while having bottom of the barrel pricing. Of course, it lacks a lot of other features of the more expensive offerings but I actually found playing a game over it quite great.

Yes, I'm doing something similar. I found that the direct composite in devices were terrible, but the combination of composite-to-HDMI upscaler + HDMI capture works much better.

Now I just need to fix the fact that the VCR has stopped fast-rewinding ...

Did you also get this trick from Technology Connections channel? :P

I don't think that channel used the USB-HDMI thing.

Just don't go to "hardcore" forums, they will tell you what a shitty setup you have by not using an old ATI GPU with S-Video input running Windows XP to capture VHS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY introduces the "use a composite-to-HDMI upscaler and a cheap HDMI capture dongle" trick. It looks like he might've linked a different capture dongle, though the one I bought was pretty near identical to the one this article is about.

No, he captures onto a device with an USB drive.

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