[SWLUG] EasyCap stk1160 chipset

[Matthew Moore]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:44:10 +0100, Daniel Morris <danielm at iee.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:53:42PM +0100, Matthew Moore wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> I've got about 20 old skateboarding videos that I'd like to save.  So
>> I got an EasyCap off ebay in the hope that it wouldn't be too hard to
>> get working.  In the name of getting it working quickly, I thought I'd
>> give my windows partition a whirl.  That has been a wonderful failure
>> (the Windows partition won't boot now!) so I'm wondering if anyone has
>> an EasyCap that works ok on Linux.  Apparently the ones with stk1160
>> chips work well (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Easycap).
>> 
>> Mine is a utv007 which seems rather scant supportwise.
> 
> Not to get your hopes up, but I have a similar device, which I call the
> dongle of death. The instant it is plugged in to my laptop the machine
> powers off with an eery 'pop'. Booting with it in is fine, but it does
> something bad when hotswap'd in, without leaving a trace in any log that
> I could find. I couldn't get it working either under Linux as it had the
> wrong chipset. ISTR spending some time looking for a purchasable device
> with compatibility, but it was a minefield.

Daniel,

It looks like the Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 works ok with Linux.  Looking at
the EasyCap devices they're hit and miss even with Windows it seems.  But
if anyone has a working EasyCap device, that I could borrow / buy that
would be great.

Matt