[CoLoCo] Capturing video

[Kyle Anderson]

I would say.. probably.
Mythtv is going to be your best reference on whether it will work or
not, and how to make it work.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV-USB2
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-USB2

If you are using a recent kernel it sounds like both of these are plug
and play, and will give you a /dev/video right off the bat. Make sure
you are using usb 2.0 of course.

Kyle

Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> Kyle Anderson wrote:
>> Kenneth,
>> I've had great success with anything made by Hauppauge. Even their
>> crappy frame grabbing "wintv". All of them are supported with the
>> video4linux2 framework.
> 
> I've seen some RCA-USB stuff that was made by them - any ideas on that
> sort of thing?
> 
>> I've got an extra fancy one that encodes to mpeg2. Would you like to
>> meet up and borrow it? I don't mind, my mythtv server is out of pci slots.
> 
> That's a generous offer, but I'm going to have to decline - I should
> have mentioned the only computer I have is my laptop. Works well for
> most things, just hard to stick new cards in it.
> 
> 

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