CGMagazine shares excerpts from their favourite capture cards this year, naming their best capture cards 2025.

Connect the capture card to your computer’s USB port, then hook up any device with HDMI output, and you can record that device’s video using a free program called OBS (more on that shortly).

Many FPGAs have a HDMI (or rather, sparkling DVI) port as well, and [Steve Markgraf] brings us the hsdaoh project — High-Speed Data Acquisition Over HDMI, using USB3 capture cards based on the ...

A capture card allows a third-party device like a laptop or a PC to get a video stream from a console, mobile device, or a PC without resulting in increased processing power required from the latter.