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Using AVerMedia Live Gamer HD 2 on Linux

This card is not marketed as Linux compatible, but there always are workarounds when it comes to this OS.

There are two main issues with this card:

  1. Capture card connects and disconnects when not in use, slowing down the system
  2. I wasn't able to capture HDMI sound through the capture card

Connection/disconnection issue

As reported here and there, the capture card won't stay up as long as it is not used by OBS or some other software. I worked around this issue thanks to this StackExchange thread.

Sound capture

I was able to fetch the video from the capture card, however I couldn't fetch the sound. To work around this, I plugged a male-male 3.5mm jack from the capture card audio passthrough to my computer's Line-In port. Alternatively you can connect the audio passthrough port to a mixing table.

guides/avermedia-gc-570-linux.txt · Last modified: 2021/08/03 10:40 by baku