Even in the 1980s, home computer users were looking for ways ... [Cameron Kaiser] has a mid-1980s consumer-grade video capture device, which he has managed to turn into an almost real-time video ...

Discount (or even grey market) electronics can be economical ways to get a job done, but one usually pays in other ways. [Majenko] ran into this when a need to capture some HDMI video output ended ...

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).

After that, download the latest version of OBS from its official website and install it on your PC. Open the app and add Video Capture Device to check if the camera is working fine now.