Capture cards on iPadOS 17

[xxFoxtail]

It treats my Elgato HD60S+ as a webcam. As far as I know, FaceTime is the only app I can use it in. And it’s unfortunately backwards, no sound, and takes up the whole screen. But, there’s very little to no latency from what I can tell.

Attached a (pretty bad) video showing it. I have a Safari window blocking my FaceTime contacts.

Whoops, I guess the video didn’t upload right. I’ll put it on YouTube.

 

[xxFoxtail]

 

[xxFoxtail]

And my attempt with it on the external display. I‘m not sure if it’s choppy here because I have The HD60S connected through my monitor’s hub or if it’s just an iPad thing (edit: was because it wasn’t getting enough power in my monitor’s USB port). On a Mac, it tells me it doesn’t get enough power through here.

Edit: One last test with my USB-C hub. I have the HD60S+ connected directly into that, then HDMI out to my monitor. The video preview from the capture card is working at full speed on the external screen.

 

[hovscorpion12]

Nice. Is it able to record like OBS. (Record through screen recorder with audio?

 

[xxFoxtail]

Nice. Is it able to record like OBS. (Record through screen recorder with audio?

Unfortunately audio doesn’t pass through, at least through to the FaceTime app preview. I tried a few other apps, just doesn’t seem like any others will detect an external camera right now. And the picture is mirrored (like other posts with external cameras), I can’t seem to find a way to un-mirror it. And the FaceTime app tries to fill the whole screen with the picture, so it’s cropped no matter the size of the window.

I’ll attempt a FaceTime call with someone in a bit to see if audio at least goes through. I’m kind of hoping some developer can just fix all the problems with it and make a good OBS substitute with it.

 

[sevoneone]

Have you tried the Streamlabs app?

 

[islade]

Worked perfectly in facetime with both:

• Fujifilm X-H2 in 'webcam' mode directly connected
• Sony FX6 via generic (j5 create) HDMI to USB WebCam dongle (like a camlink)

I'm keen to try it on some other apps 🔥

 

[xxFoxtail]

Another little update. I figured out how to FaceTime myself. Video is correct on the person‘s device being Facetime’d. And sound passes through. Sound is playing through my iPhone in this video. Without a dedicated app for this, this is probably as far as I could go with testing this.

Edit:
Apparently getting a little more attention now. Technical Marketing Manager at Elgato tweeted about it -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1666569685402542081

And The Verge also mentioned it - https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752140/ipad-external-usb-webcam-camera-support-ipados-17

Edit 2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/145h1a6

Someone actually released something that makes it work perfectly. I’ve definitely tested it. It’s basic but it works.