PSCapture

Turn a jailbroken PlayStation 5 into a real capture card for your PC.
The console screen is streamed over your LAN and shows up in Discord, OBS or ffmpeg
as a virtual camera called PS5 Capture.

No capture card. No Remote Play. No cloud. Just your console and your network.
by fstat13

✨ What you get

One executable — PSCapture.exe carries the console payload inside itself: it installs the virtual capture driver, pushes the payload to the PS5, registers it in the autoloader and starts the stream. One window, one button.
A real camera device — a DirectShow source filter named PS5 Capture: pick it in Discord calls, record it in OBS at 1920x1080, open it from ffmpeg.
Low latency — frames are read straight from the console's display engine (NV12 over TCP); nothing is re-encoded on the console.
Live tuning — chroma gain and horizontal shift knobs, saved in pscapture.ini, applied without restarts.

🚀 Quick start

Jailbreak your PS5 (payload loader on :9021, anonymous FTP on :2121, pldmgr autoloader — all standard in today's setups).
Run PSCapture.exe (admin is requested automatically; set your PS5 IP if it isn't the default).
Press Start. The app does the rest. The console pops a notification: PSCapture is streaming on:PORT
In Discord/OBS pick the camera PS5 Capture.

📖 The illustrated guide lives in docs/index.html (open it in a browser, or enable GitHub Pages on /docs). 🔧 Curious about what happens under the hood when you press Start? See docs/INSTALLER.md — the exact four steps the app runs, down to registry keys and console paths.

📦 Repository layout

payload/    PS5 side: display-engine reader + NV12 streamer (ps5capture.elf)
pc/         PSCapture.exe  — GUI + installer + payload deployer + feeder
pc/shm.h    shared-memory contract between feeder and driver
pc/*.dll    the virtual capture-card driver (DirectShow source filter)
docs/       HTML guide (dark theme, ready for GitHub Pages)

🔧 Build

Console payload (needs the PS5 payload SDK; any Linux/docker with it):

docker run --rm -v "$PWD/payload:/payload" -w /payload <ps5-payload-sdk-image> make

PC app (mingw-w64, no dependencies):

windres pscapture.rc -O coff -o pscapture.res      # icon + embedded payload
gcc -O2 -mwindows -o pscapture.exe pscapture.c pscapture.res -lws2_32 -lshell32 -ladvapi32

Driver (mingw-w64):

gcc -O2 -shared -o pscapture.dll ps5cam.c -lole32 -loleaut32 -luser32 -ladvapi32 -lws2_32

❓ FAQ

Does it work on firmwares older than 13.60? The PC side works everywhere. The console payload was built and tuned on 13.60; other firmwares may need a small porting pass (re-finding the same display-engine anchors). Open an issue with your firmware version.

720p in Discord but 1080p in OBS? That's Discord's voice engine — it requests 1280x720 from every camera (capture cards included). Use OBS for full quality, or Discord screen-share (up to 1080p60 with Nitro).

Remote Play involved? Never. The payload reads the display engine on the console itself.

🔬 Reverse engineering

The whole story of how the console's display engine was mapped — the scan-out ring, the pan, the chroma plane, the kernel-side notes and the delivery format for kernel payloads — lives in docs/REVERSE_ENGINEERING.md. The bench used to get there is in tools/: the library dumper payload, the disassembly hunters, the deterministic frame renderers.

No Sony binaries are distributed with this project: tools/dumplib/ extracts what you need from your own console to reproduce every finding.

📄 License

Source-available, copyright © 2026 fstat13. You may read and study the code and use the official binaries for personal projects; redistribution, reuse in other projects and commercial use are not allowed without permission. See LICENSE for the full terms.

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