Can Internet-ready files be captured live?
Live recording requires either a camera with a firewire port or a camera with A/V out (almost all do) and a composite-to-DV converter box and a matching firewire port on the laptop. Windows Media 9 can be encoded live during the game using a computer with Core 2 Duo, or i3, i5, or i7 chip. On Macs, MPEG4-H.264 can be recorded live using Quicktime player. Gamebreaker 8.4 and newer can also record H.264 directly. Mac users can also record live in other formats and programs (iMovie, for instance) and convert the video using the Mac CPU or offloading the work to a Turbo 264HD accelerator ($99). On Windows, XviD can be encoded live, depending on system and equipment (pre-testing is recommended).