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Technical

Capture card

Hardware that brings video from a console (or second PC) into your streaming computer over HDMI. Required for PS5/Xbox streaming through OBS.

Related terms

  • Dual-PC setup

    Using one PC to game and a second to encode the stream. Once the standard for high-end quality; modern GPU encoders (NVENC) make it unnecessary for most.

  • OBS (Open Broadcaster Software)

    The free, open-source app most streamers use to broadcast — it captures your game, webcam and mic, mixes them into scenes, and sends the stream to your platform.

  • Source

    One ingredient inside an OBS scene: a game capture, webcam, image, browser overlay, or mic. Scenes are just stacks of sources.