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).

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

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.