Posted: 2/6/2011 7:13 PM
Post subject: Recording in SD while playing in HD from an Xbox 360
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GabCM
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The title says a big part of it. First of all, I'm playing with my Xbox 360 (not the Slim one) using an HDMI cable to my HD monitor. Second, I have a Dazzle USB Capturing device (DVC-100) that can capture SD signals from S-Video or composite A/V. I've been trying to connect both HDMI and composite/component cables on my console, and they won't even fit together! So I wonder one thing. Can the Xbox 360 broadcast an HD 1080p signal and a 480i signal at the same time? If so, can I buy a composite cable that would fit with the HDMI cable on the Xbox 360? Note: I'm too cheap to buy an HD capture card.
Posted: 2/6/2011 7:19 PM
Post subject: Re: Recording in SD while playing in HD from an Xbox 360
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Brushy
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With the old Xbox 360's, they kinda tried to force you to buy the official HDMI-cable thingy, so that you could fit the HDMI cable and the A/V cable in the console at the same time, but lots of people just cut the A/V adapter in pieces so that they could fit both. So, do that and you should do fine.
Posted: 2/6/2011 7:24 PM
Post subject: Re: Recording in SD while playing in HD from an Xbox 360
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moozooh
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Mister Epic wrote:
So I wonder one thing. Can the Xbox 360 broadcast an HD 1080p signal and a 480i signal at the same time?
I don't think X360 can output 480i period.
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Posted: 2/6/2011 9:19 PM
Post subject: Re: Recording in SD while playing in HD from an Xbox 360
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GabCM
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moozooh wrote:
Mister Epic wrote:
So I wonder one thing. Can the Xbox 360 broadcast an HD 1080p signal and a 480i signal at the same time?
I don't think X360 can output 480i period.
Yes it can. I played in 480i before I got my HD monitor. I'll probably somehow try Brushy's idea. I think I'm gonna remove the cap that covers the cable's console connector. I'll see if that works.
Posted: 2/6/2011 9:31 PM
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moozooh
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Ah, you're right. Apparently I was thinking about HDMI and VGA, which are my preferred output methods. But why would you want 480i when none of the X360 games output interlaced signal by default? [EDIT] Ok I'm dumb today. Your recorder doesn't support progressive input.
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Posted: 2/7/2011 5:26 AM
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You can't run an HDMI cable and the larger video cables (I've done composite, but I'm sure component is the same way) at the same time. If you want to record Xbox 360, you can do one of two setups: 1. Output using the composite cables and run that though a splitter. Not a good solution for some games, as they look like crap in SD. 2. Output though a HDMI splitter and get yourself a capture card that has HDMI. I got a capture card on Amazon for $100 (plus probably another $25 or so for the splitter and 3 HDMI cables).
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Posted: 2/8/2011 6:29 AM
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tall
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I'm in almost the same situation, except I use VGA. The way I figure it, the easiest way is to split the VGA signal, then use a VGA-composite converter, and capture the composite. That's the cheapest I could come up with, and it's still not very cheap. =/