Using a capture card to play PS4/Switch

[Kaws]

This is a strange request, but a simple and more affordable option would be to buy a used TV monitor to hook it up. However, I'm severely hampered by lack of space and my desk is already full already. Now I was thinking of getting a capture card and using that to directly connect to my desktop or laptop and play in a Windows on my PC. Does anyone know if an affordable option under $80 like this?

[FloRolf]

Wait what exactly do you wanna do? Play PS4 games on the pc? 

Because that ain't happening. 

[Kaws]

2 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Wait what exactly do you wanna do? Play PS4 games on the pc? 

Because that ain't happening. 

 

Yeah, hence playing the ps4 via capture card

[FloRolf]

2 minutes ago, Kaws said:

 

Yeah, hence playing the ps4 via capture card

Do you know what a capture card does? 

 

It literally only grabs the video output of your PS4/Switch/PC and makes a video of it. There is no reverse peripheral input or anything happening in a capture card. It just captures. 

 

 

Edit: why are you not just using an hdmi cable to connect the ps4 to a monitor and play there, with a controller? 

[Master Disaster]

20 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Do you know what a capture card does? 

 

It literally only grabs the video output of your PS4/Switch/PC and makes a video of it. There is no reverse peripheral input or anything happening in a capture card. It just captures. 

 

 

Edit: why are you not just using an hdmi cable to connect the ps4 to a monitor and play there, with a controller? 

Did you actually read his post?

 

He wants to know if he can buy a capture card for his PC and hook the PS4 up then play on his monitor. He literally answered your 2nd question in his post.

 

Btw capture cards do not "just make videos out of it", they take an input video signal and allow you to show it on the PC screen or use it in an application, very much the same way a webcam works. Separate software is required to make any kind of video, or indeed stream the display.

 

OP yes you can do that as long as the capture card comes with software to display the capture on screen, or you could just use OBS I guess. As for cost? I can't help you there.

 

One worry i would have is latency between the input device and the display, I really don't know how bad that might be.

[Kaws]

12 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Did you actually read his post?

 

He wants to know if he can buy a capture card for his PC and hook the PS4 up then play on his monitor. He literally answered your 2nd question in his post.

 

Btw capture cards do not "just make videos out of it", they take an input video signal and allow you to show it on the PC screen or use it in an application, very much the same way a webcam works. Separate software is required to make any kind of video, or indeed stream the display.

 

OP yes you can do that as long as the capture card comes with software to display the capture on screen, or you could just use OBS I guess. As for cost? I can't help you there.

 

One worry i would have is latency between the input device and the display, I really don't know how bad that might be.

Pretty much spot on what I'm trying to do. Its not the greatest way of doing things but I really want to connect my consoles somehow as swopping cables in and out from my Cintiq is not ideal.