Using Elgato Video Capture for recording vinyl

I’m trying to use the Elgato Video Capture (which has tri-colored RCA plugs and is designed for ripping VHS tapes and other analog sources) to record vinyl directly into Audacity.

The video capture software works on its own, and Audacity recognizes it as one of the recording devices, but gives me a 9999 Error Message upon trying to record.

{
“timestamp”: 1726028360,
“event_id”: “0a2fb93a52030644be9a39f5f190a018”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.6.3”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.22631”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error”,
“value”: “Error opening recording device.\nError code: -9999 Unanticipated host error.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}
}

Most of these video capture devices send compressed audio & video together to the computer and they usually only work with the supplied software.

When you use their software, it will probably work with no video plugged-in. You should get an audio/video file with blank video.

If you have FFmpeg installed, Audacity should be able to open the audio from the audio/video file, which you can edit and export to your desired audio-only format.