The Elgato Game Capture HD eats the screen footage of my Kindle Fire HD for breakfast.
Last week, I recounted the woes of my harried attempts to screencast my Kindle Fire HD 7″ using only software. In case you missed it, these two words will sum it up pretty darned well: dismal failure.
You may wonder why I chose to do a segment on Android capture in two parts. Well, when I wrote the first bit, My Elgato Game Capture HD was still on order. In fact, I had no idea whether it was even going to work for my purposes. Thankfully, there’s no egg on my face this week, as the review below explains.
Oh, and if you’re curious, the reason I wanted to screencast my Kindle to begin with was to post a review of the unit (specific to its FreeTime Unlimited feature and its appropriateness for special needs kids like my son. You can check that out here:
I hope you find these useful. As always, don’t hesitate to post a comment if you have questions or concerns.
August 13, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
I have an Android device. If you can enable Developer options (I don’t know about Kindle HD), then there should be an option to “show” all screen updates, touches, etc. On mine, it’s called “Show Touches”.
Did you try recording directly from HDMI into your computer? Newer laptops all have an HDMI connector already, and it should work directly, with the same caveats about protected video, etc.
Would have liked to see the device shown next to a pack of cards to really see it’s size. Or, perhaps in your hand, although hands are quite variable in size.
August 13, 2013 @ 4:15 pm
Hi Stephan:
Thanks for the post. I’m afraid I can’t see any developer settings on the Kindle except for the one that lets you access the device via USB. It is nice some developers offer it as an option.
As far as the built-in HDMI port on computers is concerned, my understanding is that these only do HDMI out, meaning that you can display your desktop on an HDTV or projector. I don’t believe these are generally able to capture from an external source.
I’m afraid I’m not much of a card player, and hence can’t take a comparison shot. But here’s a pic of me holding the device, which should at least give you a general idea…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21829329@N00/9502818105/
cheers, d.
February 17, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
This might be the only solution for our usability testing at this point. Thank you for sharing the information.