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Long ago I blogged about a $20 capture card off Amazon * - which is chuffing better than either of EXPESIVE named brand ones. 

I re fanboyed about it a few weeks back. Having just used it for rugby. But it would not caput sound (known issue with these apparently) and its USB2 and I only have on USB port that works.

 But its limited to 30fps @ 1080p  but that, now with zoom all  and bandwidth is bandwidth, but h265/HVEC is a thing and so I went looking for something similar but better.

Yes I have an Elgarto game capture HD that does FHD @ 60 - but NOT on battery. Laptops (plural) have to be plugged in for it to work, and if you so much as look at it it will stop working till you re boot it the laptop or both. and sometimes it takes 10 minutes to get it to work.

My previous post about advertising, well 'sponsors' in creator YouTube videos do get through my add blocking, but not my cynicism. One Such is Ugreen I NEEDED a USB cable and many of them are utter crap but had heard of Ugreen so gave it a shot, cable still works three years on and has not been on fire USBC @ 66 fricking watts.

Based on this I bought a highly discounted Ugreen 60fps Video capture box. Its probably not much different to the $14.98 dongle  but the cables it came with were v good quality looking the thing plugged strait into OBS no drivers and looks great. Is USB c so frees up a USB2 port. Has audio jacks and a pass through - Looks great!

Hopefully you'll see it soon.

* remind me not to put Asterix style swearing in titles. It breaks the nice links and the internet