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Old 12-21-2005, 12:14 AM   #1
gradedcheese
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composite video input / recording?


Hello. I was wondering if anyone here knows of a piece of hardware that I can use with my laptop to capture composite video (ie: from an RCA jack). I've been searching around and I have read about the BTTV and video4linux drivers but I have not found any definite information on the PCMCIA, cardbus, or USB products on the market as far as Linux support. For example:

a USB one:
http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/produ...a_usblive.html

a cardbus one:
http://www.aver.com/2005home/product.../cardbus.shtml

I don't care about the TV tuner and other features as all I want to do is grab video from an underwater video camera through a regular RCA cable. I'd appreciate any suggestions, especially if someone out there has tried one of these cards.

My laptop runs Ubuntu 5.10 with the 2.6.12-10 kernel.

Thanks!
 
Old 12-21-2005, 06:07 PM   #2
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Use a DV camcoder with firewire. Then buy a PCMCIA (aka card bus) firewire device. You can then use kino or dvgrab to download the video off the camcorder.

The
http://www.usbgear.com/2P-PCMCIA-F2.html
should work in Linux.

USB is poor to use for multimedia data.
 
Old 12-23-2005, 12:42 AM   #3
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I like your suggestion but the camera I have really is analog and all of the composite-to-firewire converters I've seen are rather expensive. I'd really like to find some way to just input composite video if possible. The quality doesn't have to be extremely good (it's just a cheap waterproof color camera).

Eventually I may try to hack open the housing and replace the actual camera with a DV unit and perhaps add some motors to allow the camera angle to be changed.
 
  


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