HDMI Cables

Hi there! if anyone actually bothers to help me then thank you! It has been a goal of mine to become a youtuber one day. After months of saving up I have finally gotten an legato game capture and a good collection of games. I tried to set it up and everything
went smoothly until I needed to connect an HDMI cable from the xbox to the elgato. I was frustrated because of a plastic flap on the av cable that covered the HDMI area. I literally chopped off the flap and fixed the problem. But now another problem has risen.
When ever I have the Elgato and the AV cable connected at the same time I won't see anything on the screen. However when I Elgato is unplugged Everything is normal, but I need the Elgato plugged in to be able to record. Please help me! I don't care what I
need to buy I just need to know what will allow me to have both together. I had my dream of video making in my grasp and now I'm so close! My COD Ghosts was scratched, My Dad is in the hospital, and now this. I don't need to have another problem. Please help
me if you can. All I need to know is what I can do to have both plugged in at the same time. Someone please help me. I really hope my streak of bad luck will end sometime soon.

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xbox faulty

Sorry to hear about your problems. Sounds frustrating. Did you connect it straight to a tv with the supplied HDMI cable? I had some flicker issues and it was the HDMI cable. I mean it is possible you got two bad systems, but it is also possible you have a couple of crappy HDMI cables lying around your house, like I did.

 

Xbox 360 and HDMI

How are you displaying your Xbox 360 - with or without an HDMI cable? We just bought a new TV today (yay! lol) and since it's HDMI capable, we bought an HDMI cable and hooked the Xbox 360 up with it. Man, does it make a WORLD of difference!

 

Hey there

Welcome to the forums

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When you have two cables plugged into the Xbox 360. It confuses it because it doesn't know what to do. Its like when you plug an Earthnet cable into your Xbox when you have the adapter plugged in. It doesn't work because its confused.

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Now I'm not too sure with capture cards, but I do bellive it needs to be plugged into your TV. I might be wrong but try it and see what happens

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Please post back your results

Regards,

 

First, I want to thank you for trying to help me. Its driving me insane on how I might have just wasted 200 dollars.

You are correct that one of the cables must be connected to your television, but there are three cables that need to be attatched in total. One from the monitor to the capture card via HDMI. Another from the elgato to a computer via usb. A third one connected
from the elgato to the xbox via an HDMI. When I have it plugged in it is supposed to get video from the TV and audio from the xbox, the elgato just sends it a to my computer. My xbox thinks that it is supposed to be used for connection instead of video feed.
Is there a setting that I can use to fix this? Please answer me back