HDMI & AV Record

5 Stars , Are You Crazy? I am giving this 5 stars because it delivers ! I am adding a video so you can see. Dead simple to record. I was up and running in under 5 minutes. If your goofing around and want to record 1080p XBOX ONE this is what you want. Feels better than some of the reviews stated. I don't find it cheep at all. I did not like the manual . Good luck! I wanted to tinker around with settings and a firmware update. Gave up after 30 minutes. Where on earth is the "jedi.img" file? Turns out it does not matter. The video of FarCry 5 looks as good as I need it to. I did not try the Component cable. In the future I plan to record some 3DO games. It has a composite port but I bet I can get it to work. I will update this review when I do. Unless you need 4K recording I have no idea why you would not buy this one. 50% less!

Bought this to record component video sources, what I was sent can only record composite and HDMI. Works great for both but I needed it to record component and it's completely incapable. The storefront claimed it was a mixup. However, the product page here clearly mentions YpBpR video. Even the sticker on the box it came in mentions YpBpR video. I think they're knowingly shipping out cheaper units to turn a better profit. They told me I could ship it back for a refund, which I'd sooner not do. That's money out of my pocket explicitly because of this manufacturer's garbage business practices. When I reached out they didn't even offer to replace it. Don't buy this if you want to record component, there's no telling what you'll actually receive.

Probably about 20 years behind on converting VHS tapes but here we are. I tried using my PC and fancy capture card but figuring out the software was too challenging for something I'll only use for this one project. This device just sits between your player and your tv. Videos are captured on a thumb drive or external hard drive. I realized that while I was busy trying to adjust brightness, color, and contrast on my deteriorating VHS tapes I could instead just get them digitized and complete any editing and improving later. The good: 1. Comes with the necessary a/v cables for a standard VHS (yellow/red/white RCA to 1/8 plug plus a coupler if you already have the cables hooked up behind your tv. Decent enough instructions for a simple device. You can plug in your tv to the HDMI-out if you want to monitor your playback (of course you do.) Also has HDMI-in for other inputs; I did not test this feature as it's not why I bought it. 2. Simple to hook up, insert a thumb drive, hit play on the VCR and record on the device. The light changes from green to orange-red when you are successfully recording. Depending on the format of your storage you may want to limit the video size to about 15 minutes or so, which was plenty for my purposes. 3. If desired, insert the thumb drive into your PC to edit with your favorite software. From here you can manipulate your videos to your heart's content, play your videos, or create DVDs. The not-as-good: 1. Occasionally the record button doesn't "do" anything; just stays green despite multiple presses. I'm not sure if that's the button malfunctioning or that the device is "thinking" but after a few seconds everything works. 2. Doesn't come with a power cord but any usb-C cable should work. 3. Names the files "Encode 1, Encode 2 etc" and according to the instructions will eventually run out of numbers. You have to manually reset this by holding down the record button as you plug in the power. For the price it's definitely the way to go for this type of project. It made this project fun and easy.

The upside is the device records video very well, and to thumb drives (No PC needed). Video files are created seamlessly (no dropped frames when starting a new file), but there does appear to be about a 2 frame break in the audio each time a new file is created. A typical hour-long video recording session creates about 4-5 sequentially numbered files. My experience is in using the HDMI option, so I can't say specifically how component video works on the unit. My assumption is the issues are similar. There is no way to rename files - it just increments each file by 1. An extended recording session will end up with multiple files being X, X_1, X_2, X_3, etc., where X is the overall recording session number. Each time you start a new recording (i.e., each time you press the record button), the file number (X) increments by one digit. There is no way to set a date/time, which may or may not be important for you, depending on your situation. It automatically creates a new file every 2GB or so and depending on the complexity of the video, this may be 15-25 minutes of content. It sounds a lot more complex than it really is in use and other than file management long term, it's workable, although a pain. Be sure to format your recording thumb drives for FAT32 - exFAT WILL NOT work. I learned this the hard way. I was using 128GB thumb drives (USB 3.0) with FAT32 formatting and they recorded well. Supposedly hard drives will work as well, and NTFS will work, but with occasional problems...use FAT32 is my, and AGPteEK's recommendation. In any case, the exFAT format should be avoided. There are some serious downsides that are not apparent from the product description here on Amazon. The biggest issue/problem (for me anyway) is audio input. Not clear, until I actually tried using the units, is that when using HDMI input, the units will ONLY accept Mic level (no line-level input with HDMI), and will NOT allow you to monitor via headsets (line out). The only way to make sure you are recording audio correctly is to stop the recording and playback the recording on a laptop or something. Apparently, you have to use the component input to access the line in/line out functions, but component use went untested by me. It MAY allow for monitoring audio via the line out, but I can't say. For many end-users, the audio drawbacks of the device may be of no consequence. However, I was trying to record classroom PPT presentations via HDMI from a laptop, while feeding line level out of a simple mic mixer to the device (most mixers are designed to deliver line-level output). Again, while it does have both line-level and mic-level inputs (and line/headset level outputs labeled as such), ONLY mic-level input is available when recording using HDMI (with no line out to monitor), while line-level input is available to use ONLY when using component video. The price point is good, and for many 'casual' end-users this unit may be fine, but for my purposes, these units did not work out well. I was hoping for an inexpensive solution for my PPT/audio recording needs but, unfortunately, this wasn't it. My recommendation is to somehow get hold of the manual for the unit and read it carefully beforehand. Understand that, even then, the manual is a bit hard to understand. I received paper manuals with the units, but AGPtEK's website doesn't list these units - or at least I couldn't find it there - and I had no luck locating a manual on Google. AGPtEK does have a similar unit, which only has a mic input, which is also sold on Amazon for about $10 less. In any case, as is the case of a lot of the 'low end' electronics, "your mileage may vary".

Pues a mí me encantó porque me funcionó muy bien para grabar mis vídeos favoritos de todas partes. La calidad de imagen excelente, cómo la calidad de origen, excepto 4k. Excelente

I had audio recording issues when I first reviewed this product, and I left a scathing review. Sadly it was my mistake, this is actually working great. I’d have given it 5 stars except the case is cheap plastic. Functionally it’s very good and does exactly what it’s supposed to. I’ve updated my review to give the product the rating it actually deserves. I’ve been enjoying digitizing old home movies.

Love this little unit, recording like crazy since yesterday, tried similar device and even could not record HDMI, flawless recording through HDMI, tried with Mac and digital content via HDMI, video bitrate is 4800, great quality as had to reduce by software to have smaller size, tried with flash card, must be formatted as FAT32 which has max 2GB file limit, no problem at all with missing frames or latency, flash was USB2, only Audio was a bit lower than source but that could be easily fixed, very easy to work with, recommend it

Articulo defectuoso, no entraba en función de grabar.

I order this around the end of December for my YouTube channel. The first video I recorded didn't end up working properly cutting off 3 hours worth of content it only saved bits and pieces (while those were terribly glitchy), and now it can turn on but the record feature doesn't even work anymore, I tried contacting the company thru phone and email and did not get a response back and I want my money back, what a wast of space it's become and I will never buy from that company again.