My experience with them is mixed, the first device i bought (easyCAP from DX) didn't work well, and i got many segfault with it, don't remember the chip-set that was use in that device back then (2.5/3 years ago), had to compile the module from source (not a very active community around this device driver/module) many bad experience.
Then i borrowed a slimier device from my collage and test it on windows (finding drivers for Win7 64bit was a bitch back then), anyway, at the end it worked i preferred to record the caste to a uncompressed AVI file (~20G per 3 hours) and not use the direct MPEG2 encoder. Then I use VirtualDub to apply some filters to optimize the picture quality (CROP few lines the bottom, some soft bluing i think and one more for the "lines" which i can't recall right now), and used DivX for compressing the video and mp3 for the audio (and I used a single pass compression). then i used the device on my Linux machine (F17 i think back then), and it worked, seems like my first device had a hardware problem. Bottom line (for me) was, not all silicon chips created the same, and be careful when buying cheap converters. -- Rabin On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Mord Behar <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Constantine Shulyupin < > co...@makelinux.co.il> wrote: > >> http://www.ebay.com/bhp/usb-video-capture-device >> >> > Thanks, but I was looking for a more personal experience. I found devices > as cheap as $5 on Chinese sites, some of them with free shipping. I'm > looking for success or failure stories. What the setup was, how easy or > hard it was to use, what the final results are like. > > >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Mord Behar <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > We have a lot of VHS tapes that we want to digitize. >> > Anybody out there have a video capture card? >> > What kind? >> > Where did you buy it? >> > How much? >> > What sort of software do you use? >> > Are you satisfied with the results? >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Linux-il mailing list >> > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Constantine Shulyupin >> http://www.MakeLinux.co.il/ >> Embedded Linux Systems >> Tel Aviv >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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