Elgato capture device on Mac = disappointment (Patreon)

While the HD60 device itself does what it is supposed to, the software that controls it does not-- it requires 170% or more of the CPU (2 entire cores) when it is sitting and doing nothing! Bump that up to 190 or more when it's streaming. Sure, it doesn't take any extra CPU to record/capture but when the software at idle is wasting 2 cores of your processing power, it's not going to work.

Too bad there isn't an alternate software to tell the thing to record. OBS on PC reportedly can work directly with the Elgato, but the Mac doesn't see it.

On the other hand, testing with OBS shows a max of 93% CPU usage when both streaming and recording at a 2500 bitrate that provides acceptable HD screen capture and legible text in moving windows without too many pixely compression artifacts. So I guess for now I'll just use OBS to capture streams and ebay the Elgato.