Xbox one X, cannot capture more than 2 minute at 1080p even though it's plugged in as...

If you use an external drive as the capture location, you can record footage at 1080p that's way longer than 1 minute, but it has 2 important limitations.

1. You have to start and stop the recording manually. You can't use the "record that" feature to capture longer clips of something that just happened; that would still be limited to 1 minute at 1080p.

2. Clips captured on external storage cannot be shared over Xbox Live.

I think it's a good solution if you're recording footage to transfer over to a PC, edit, then upload to YouTube, but it's no good if you want to capture longer clips to share with friends over Xbox Live.

I wonder why they reduced the recording times though. I'm sure when I got my Xbox Series X, there was a 2 minute option for 1080p, but now, as you said, it's only 1 minute.

I would like to have an answer to this as well. 1080p captures on the Series X appear to be capped at 1 minute now. Not only is this laughably low, to the point of uselessness, but this was never communicated to us. It looks like it was a stealth change that shipped with a console update about 3 months back. The PS5's capture settings are far and away superior to what we have on the Series X. Even the Xbox One allowed 2-min 1080p and 5-min 720p captures.

What's going on here?

Xbox One S by default captures 1080p with a max of 2 minutes.

Go to preferences > Broadcast & Capture

Under capture select Game clip resolution and choose 720p SDR. This will allow you to record 5 minutes. Be warned, the quality of video recordings will drop.

Try changing your capture setting, you can capture up to 5 minutes of 720p video or 2 minutes of 1080p video.

So, yesterday I chatted with MS Support and basically she said that the Xbox One S does not have the capability of "capturing" gameplay in 4K. And that was a feature only possible with the Xbox One X.

So, I left that conversation with the thought that I had made the wrong choice of consoles if that is what I wanted to achieve.

With the Xbox One S, I can only capture as high a resolution in 1080p SDR at 2 minutes max. And yes, I did have a properly formatted external drive connected to the console but this is what I was informed of.

However, I come to find out that I do have the capability of capturing longer than 2 mins when I did so while recording the intro to Star Wars Battlefront ll at a duration of 14 minutes.

So fact-checking MS Support my question is, has anyone captured gameplay in 4K using the Xbox One S?

Your reply is appreciated.

Thanks.