Recording Gaming without Capture Card?

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Me and my friend want to start a gaming channel where we want to play old games and review them (Quake, Painkiller, DMC franchise,etc.), and we need a video capture method (Excluding putting a camera in front the screen, because that's just lazy). But, I'm worried that the channel might not be as successful, and buying a capture card would be expensive and a waste of money if the channel goes bad. But, I have been looking, and I found a youtube video where if you put Y splitters into your RCA cable (Red,White,Yellow) port, plug in your PS3 (that's what I have) or Xbox 360 and a Camcorder into the splitters (plugging in camcorder w/ RCA to 3.5 mm cord), it will record with the camera. But, I want to know if I can plug it into my computer (via USB) to monitor,save, and edit the recording. Also, my brother keeps saying that the RCA cables only upscale to 480p. But, I have seen tutorials where people went into the video settings on the PS3, changed the source to RCA, then upscale it to 1080p. So, is this a good alternative?


P.S. If I can monitor it on my PC, what software do I use?
 
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I will concur with this. I did a bunch of research on this a few years ago when looking for a new TV:

* HDMI / DVI Wil do 1080p and all existing content.
* Component (That's Red/Green/Blue NOT Red/White/Yellow) will reach 1080p, but the specification generally only allows reaching 1080i. In other words, the cables themselves will support 1080p but most sending devices will not support sending 1080p over component.
* Composite (That's Red/White/Yellow) will ONLY do upto 480p (Old DVD Spec).

Upconverting or upscaling is a different story, upconverting is where you take a signal that is being sent in a smaller format (such as 480i or p) and make it into a larger format (such as 720p, 1080i or 1080p) by in essence duplicating pixels through an algorithm. In this case, the video LOOKS like it's running at a higher resolution (it has the same crispness due to the larger number of pixels being displayed) but that's due to some advanced math; not actually because you're recording at the higher resolution.
 
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Will my method with the RCA splitters make it look to wide screen and pixely if I upscale? I know I can upscale in a video editor. If I do this in a video editor, will it stay to 16:9 or will it somehow downscale to 4:3 aspect ratio?

 
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Converting the 4:3 to 16:9 will make the image look stretched. Even upscaling isn't going to help there. You need to capture in at least 720p, or 1080p for the best results.

What is the exact specs of the PC we are talking about? Or if it is an OEM PC what is the model number?
 
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Wait a minute, we're talking about a laptop here?

Sorry to break it to you, but most of the capture cards aren't going to work - they need to be used in a desktop. Also, what games are you planning to play? With that laptop, which is essentially equal to a laptop Intel Pentium and HD Graphics, you aren't going to be able to play much. It is woefully underpowered for handling game recording and gaming at the same time, even with older games.

If you must, however, then this is your only option:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Avermedia-LGP-Lite-USB-Capture-Card-/191752614361?hash=item2ca558b1d9:g:0ToAAOSwp5JWYU9c
 
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He said to me to post since Im online. The ONLY game he is SUPPOSED to play on PC, is Quake and MOH Airborne, the former with a few shaders. Everything else is on a PS3. Not sure about MOH, But I think plain old Quake'd work with a recorder. Maybe not

His point in all this was that he wanted to record to a camera via composite cables, so itd be like its own little capture card. Maybe even use component
 
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