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3.0 out of 5 starsnot for youtube streaming - couldn't make it work without jump cuts
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023
We use these at my work (law office) for zoom meetings. My IT guy loves them for the price.
I have to say - great quality. I was really happy with the picture. And, this was before I downloaded the software (cause the instructions are NOT on the box, except a little link on the flap, which leads to support not software) and saw you could make adjustments.
I was very happy with it BUT ....
I bought for home weekly youtube streaming. No. Buy something else. Am returning it.
First, tried over 3 days for likely about an hour and a half total, and never could get it to connect directly to youtube streaming program via my laptop. Always said used by another app, even after I restarted my computer 3x one day, redownloaded the software, shut everything down in the task manager - still being used elsewhere it says. Still don't know what that other app is. Except once when it connected and I hit the 'go live' button, and was still waiting to go live 5 minutes later .... with a black screen. That happened on another day and after 2 minutes I gave up this time. So, for me, I am forced to return this. If I can't connect then its useless. Disappointed.
I also use an OBS encoder for some of my streams. I did get it to connect to that, easily, and got 2 episodes out of it over 2 days. BUT, every 30 seconds or minute it would freeze. Great quality, but if the visuals freeze and your face jumps here and there like an MTV video, not great. I decided to return, as I don't always use the encoder.
I tried the encoder twice and was going to link directly to youtube as a deliberate trial of the webcam. I told my listeners that was what I was doing so they knew. I'd keep it just for the encoder, but by the time I get a new webcam (that says in the title made for youtube) I might miss the return window for this. So, great quality, but not for me and I'm pretty tech savvy but couldn't make it work.
If you just need it for video conferencing, etc, like I said - we use it at work and have since 2020 (writing this in 2023) when we stopped bringing people to the office. Works great for this. I have a logitech headset and like that, so nothing against logitech.
