[ale] USB video capture devices that work for Linux

[Phil Turmel]

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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