Recording from another port

[Ziggen]

Did a search on google but couldn't find what I was looking for.

Alright this is the deal, I want to record some gameplay from my Xbox 360, the thing is I don't have a capture card, but the 360 is connected to an HDMI port on my monitor that I use for the PC also. Then I can switch between if I want the PC to be visible or the 360.

Is there any screen recording program that can record that HDMI port instead of the PC? Like when I use fraps and press the capture button while my 360 "screen" is on, it still captures the PC screen. I hope you get what I mean...
Is it possible or is capture card the only way?

 

[BlargHonk]

Nope.

No program at all, I don't even think it's doable.

Get a cap card, or install an OS onto the 360

 

[Dr Super Good]

The 360 is not powerful enough to record video itself and play.

Graphic cards are uni directional, meaning you can not use them to receive the signal from the 360.

You will have to get a capture card and record the 360 using the compsit / component cables. Unless you have one of those really modern 360s (unlike mine) which have HDMI, in which case use that as that is the best way to connect them. Additionally you could try using a DVD/bluray recorder device or any other device that can axcept HDMI signals and record them.

 

[BlargHonk]

Graphic cards are uni directional, meaning you can not use them to receive the signal from the 360.

There are the old Radeon Wonders, those were a combo Cap/GPU

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes but still the connectors are only mono directional at any given time with exception of HDMI and scart which can send in both directions at the same time. A graphic card with scart would look very strange but it is true that some modern gaphic cards do have HDMI built in.

Infact they should seriously consider building that functionality into some graphic cards. Capturing through the graphic card would allow you to do pretty decent real time encoding due to the massive power available while keeping the CPU mostly free next to saving and transfering of the data.

 

[BlargHonk]

Tell that to Nvidia, knowing them, they'll probably consider it.