[SWLUG] advice requested re: video capture

Julian Hall lists at kaotic.co.uk
Sun Dec 9 16:09:10 UTC 2007


James Edgeworth wrote:
> Also be aware with Hauppauge cards - in Linux, they are excellent for tv 
> - kaffeine lets you record/pause/whatnot tv. On ubuntu, the tv card is 
> detected "out of the box". The trouble is with Windows - the software is 
> incredibly unreliable.
>   
Not in my experience.. my first TV card was a WinTV and I never had a 
problem.

> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-009-CP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=169 
> - this looks pretty good, but Ive had no experience with it - I remember 
> someone saying that to capture from a camcorder, it just needs the 
> Composite or S-Video, but I cant back him up on that. It also doesnt 
> seem to do AVI files (saying that ive not actually personally seen one 
> which does do 
See here for full spec:

http://www.comprousa.com/New/en/product/t750/t750-hardware.html

Uses the Phillips SAA7135 which IIRC even works in Linux (although I 
know that's not an issue here :))

Kind regrds,

Julian



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