Re: USB device for uncompressed NTSC capture

[Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>]

Steve Fink wrote:
> This may be the wrong place for this question. I've been looking at a
> number of places, but haven't managed to figure out what I need to
> know.
> 
> I have a camera that only has analog NTSC output. I would like to get
> the frames into my Linux laptop. The frames are 8-bit deep grayscale
> and 320x240. I assume that they are getting expanded up into NTSC
> format or something; I'm ok with that; I don't need it to be very
> accurate.
> 
> On my desktop box, I have a Hauppage WinTV PCI card that hands me the
> frames back via v4l. That works perfectly. I want to do the same on my
> laptop, only using USB rather than PCI for obvious reasons. (1394
> would be fine too. But I want something cheap.)

if it only has analog out, how will the 1394 help?

but cuz you say it will, first place I checked:
http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0246465
2-Port FireWire 1394 CardBus PCMCIA Adapter RoHS
$35

I have seen cheaper.  i saw one in the bargin bin once for $10.   really should
have grabbed it.

Also, many laptops come with it.  not that that makes it cheap, but maybe you
could pick up an old one for $100 or less.  feel like messing with linux on ppc
mac?  (no clue if you can find a mac for under 100.)

Carl K

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