OT: video capture

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

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 <mordbe0 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Constantine Shulyupin <
> const at makelinux.co.il> wrote:
>
>> http://www.ebay.com/bhp/usb-video-capture-device
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>>
> 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.
>
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>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Mord Behar <mordbe0 at 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?
>> >
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