[ale] USB video capture devices that work for Linux

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Sun Jul 16 12:52:13 EDT 2017


I have a plextor 402u you can have. Just let me know.
It was advertised as Linux compatible when I got it.

Saves as mpeg2 or divx format.

On 07/16/2017 12:35 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> I've always had good results with Hauppage stuff, though I haven't used
> their USB products.
> 
> (If you can switch to an older PCI platform and can wait till I'm back
> in town, I have a PVR-500 that I could loan you.)
> 
> On 07/16/2017 05:07 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> Any suggested inexpensive USB capture devices that work relatively
>> easily and/or well under Linux?  I want to capture video and stills from
>> an NTSC camera so it needs composite video input.  It ideally would also
>> function well enough with things like ffmpeg to capture from the command
>> line so I can synchronize the capture with other events.
>>
>> I've had a couple old units laying around here but they don't seem to
>> work and I can't find anything to help (one is a Dazzle DVC-80 and the
>> other is an Adaptec GameBridge AVC-1410.  The DVC is recognized with a
>> module loaded but nothing works beyond that point, the AVC is never
>> recognized.) 


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