Quothing Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]