Re: USB2 Video/TV capture?
Quothing Ron Johnson <ronnyjunior@comcast.net>:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:28 -0500, Ephemeral root wrote:
> > Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV
capture
> > device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The
first
> > result I got on a Google search for "linux video usb2
> > capture" is a link to somebody's Linux
*in*compatibility
> > list.
>
> Video capture like from a TV/VCR, or DV from a
> camcorder?
I mean video capture from an external device with a built-in
TV
tuner. Just like what an internal PCI TV tuner card does.
My
problem is that I plan to upgrade to a mini-PC that appears
not to have any expansion slots at all. So what I need is
an external TV tuner and capture device.
> Never gonna happen. USB has too much latency to be
anything
> more than a cheap hack (when regards to video). Firewire
is
> designed for this kind of streaming lots of data with very
low
> latency, so that's what people like the developer of kino
are
> using.
Well it appears to be happening to users of another OS:
http://www.innodv.com/products/tv_usb2.html
> For stand-alone connect-the-TV-to-the-PC situations, the
> Hauppauge PVR-150 is what you are looking for. They even
> mention Linux under 3rd Party Applications support.
Because of my location and my budget I'm limited to using
Chinese, Taiwanese or Korean solutions.
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