Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:08:48AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's
> during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edit the
> foo.vob files with avidemux. Mount fails for one of the mini cd's and
> my dvd player can't read it either but the camcorder can still play back
> the recordings. I don't want to lose these shots. The camcorder has
> composite output so I need to purchase a video capture card which will
> work with my Debian Squeeze 64 bit system.
>
> Any recommendations or experience with this problem?
>
I use a Hauppauge PVR-150 on my Lenny machine, and it's recognized and
configured automatically. I have main, contrib, and non-free sections
enabled, as well as debian-multimedia.org. I use this card with MythTV,
however I think you can record from it by simply running:
cat /dev/videoX > myfile.mpeg (where X is some number -- you'll
probably have to test a few, becaue that card has multiple inputs).
This is not a high definition capture card, so it might not be what
you're looking for. On the other hand, they can probably be had for
cheap on ebay or craigslist.
-Rob
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